Apple adds support for Google-shunned JPEG XL in Safari

Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari

"Chromium users came out of the woodwork to plead with Google not to make this decision," said Farough."It made it anyway, not bothering to respond to users' concerns. We're not sure what metric it's using to gauge the interest of the 'entire ecosystem,' but it seems users have given JPEG XL a strong show of support. In turn, what users will be given is yet another facet of the web that Google itself controls: the AVIF format.

That's not the case for JPEG XL."Unlike some other modern formats, JPEG XL is not encumbered by patents nor does it require proprietary software," the 's documentation website explains."The reference software, libjxl, has a permissive open source license and is a production-ready library that can be integrated into a variety of image-related software."granted to Microsoft last year covering a data-encoding technique called rANS could complicate the picture.

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