• Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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    • ted@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Horrible headline.

      Browser maker love-in

      Chromium (used by most browsers)

      snubs

      doesn’t support

      Google-shunned JPEG XL

      JPEG XL (because Google doesn’t like it)

      • psud@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        It was chrome and Firefox both who were against the format, both saying too expensive to implement for too small a benefit

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
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      9 months ago

      I think these days that’s the rule, if it piques your interest but you have some trouble understanding headline, you may just click on the article

    • dukatos@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      The register is doing this shit for years. They are trying to sound smart…