Am I having a stroke, or is this headline horrendously written?
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I read it four times and I still don't understand what love-in means.
Dumb way of saying orgy.
I still don't understand. WTF are we talking about. This is tech news, not a celeb scandal. Why can't we just use simple words !
Why say lot word when few word do trick?
What's the smart way?
Orgy.
Dinner Party. I think group sex is just implied, right?
I did decline a event because it said "Dinner Party" in quotes.
When they explained, they meant because it's not really dinner but snacks and board games. Shame. Was expecting orgy
That’s called “Game Night”
Don’t ever go to a game night that is called a “dinner party” anyway. You’re likely to get roped into their self-created board game that is, “okay so it’s got a lot of rules and 1400 pieces, but I’ve written them all down on this 20 page spiral bound document and everyone will get a copy and an hour to read”
P.s. Fuck you Aaron, I will never come to your “dinner party” again.
Hahahah, upvote for including the tidbit with your PS and not making us ask.
As someone with very limited short-term/working memory, I feel your pain.
I believe you just responded to a message with the answer to your question.
Something about love in subs for Google ? And also JPEG?
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
The register is doing this shit for years. They are trying to sound smart...
What is this bullshit titlegore
Right? I read it like three times thinking I was just missing an inflection or something. Jesus
Thanks to wasm, you don't have to bow to Google's whim and can choose to include jpeg xl support on your websites if you want: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js
Do you know if it uses the native decoder if available (so, in Safari I guess)? Doesn't say in the readme.
I believe so. This line in the source code means it'll only attempt the decoding if an img element for a .jxl image url fails to load.
If you're on safari, you can verify it by going to the demo page at https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/ and inspect the image element. If the src attributes contain blob, then it's decoded using the wasm decoder. If the src attribute contains url to a .jxl file, then it's decoded natively.
Very cool, thanks. Will keep this in mind.
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I expected Mozilla to implement this, I don't know how they expect to get marketshare by just following in Google's footsteps every step of the way.
Is Firefox it's own browser or just Chrome with a different engine? Even Apple support jxl, well the decoding anyway.
Because Mozilla really doesn't care about what people think anymore. They're an incredibly bureaucratic group dealing with a lot of red tape placed as a force for good that doesn't always meet the mark. It's mainly the reason Firefox doesn't have a lot of things (that it honestly should have)
Also, Firefox is a completely original browser but it doesn't have a "chromium" version the browser like Google Chrome does. Both of the Firefox commercial product and the source code compile to the same thing.
I know, it was a rhetorical question given the stance they take on a lot of things always aligning with what Google wants.
Hey friend, for what its worth when i read your question, i was very much channeling this Garth Algar
But with your question about it being its own browser
Firefox is its own.
Follow the funding
Is Firefox it’s own browser
Its own browser using the Gecko rendering engine.
It was a tongue in cheek, rhetorical question, regarding what I said before it.
"Overall, we don't see JPEG-XL performing enough better than its closest competitors (like AVIF) to justify addition on that basis alone," said Martin Thomson, distinguished engineer at Mozilla, last year. "Similarly, its feature advancements don't distinguish it above the collection of formats that are already included in the platform."
So is this a legit take on the technology? Sounds like an expert in the field is pretty convinced that this file format isn't really worth it's weight. What does JXL give the web that other file formats don't?
Perhaps true from his... perspective. I've found JXL surprisingly awesome and easy to use (size, quality, speed, intuitive encoding options with lossless, supported in XnView & XnConvert for easy batches). AVIF was terrible in real-world use last I tried (and blurs fine details).
I'm still a big Mozilla & Firefox fan, but a few decisions over past few years seem like they're being dictated or vetoed by a few lofty individuals (while ignoring popular user requests). Sad.
I've read a comparison of several newer file formats (avif, heic, webp) with jpeg-xl. The conclusion was that jpeg-xl was on par in terms of compression, sometimes better and very fast. also it can re-compress jpgs directly.
here's an article describing it https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl
The big thing, to me, is that it can losslessly encode JPEGs, the dominant format for allllll sorts of archived images. That's huge for migration of images that don't necessarily exist in any other format.
Plus, as I understand it, JPEG XL performs better at those video-derived formats at lossless high resolution applications relating to physical printing and scanning workflows, or encoding in new or custom color spaces. It's designed to work in a broader set of applications than the others, beyond just web images in a browser.
If Google says chromium won't support a feature it won't be used. The majority of browsers are Chromium under the hood.
A third party adaptation of Chromium could add support for other formats, the ones we know about right now just don’t bother.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The process began last year by gathering proposals for web technologies that group members will try to harmonize using automated tests.
The goal is to ensure browser implementations of these technologies match specifications in order to make the web platform better for developers.
Mozilla has not jumped on the JPEG XL bandwagon either: The Firefox maker said it's neutral with regard to the technology, citing cost and lack of significant differentiation from other image codecs.
"Overall, we don't see JPEG-XL performing enough better than its closest competitors (like AVIF) to justify addition on that basis alone," said Martin Thomson, distinguished engineer at Mozilla, last year.
And it has since resisted entreaties to reconsider – despite Apple's endorsement last year and recent support from Samsung and apparent interest from Microsoft.
"Chrome is 'against' because of 'insufficient ecosystem interest' and because they want to promote improvements in existing codecs," said Sneyers, pointing to JPEG, WebP, and AVIF.
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