Kornel on Nostr: Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation: ...
Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
This is a very good news for web standards:
https://mastodon.social/@kornel/113078862354601952
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
This is a very good news for web standards:
https://mastodon.social/@kornel/113078862354601952
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.