Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)Leaflet@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml – 184 points – 3 weeks agogithub.com10Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsIt's sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this. I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team. https://github.com/libjxl/libjxlIt's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects. Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.1 more...
It's sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this. I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team. https://github.com/libjxl/libjxlIt's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects. Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.1 more...
Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team. https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl
It's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects. Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.
It's sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this.
I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.
Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team.
https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl
It's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.
Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.