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   Kornel (kornel@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:51:42 JST Kornel

   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.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:51:42 JST feld

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     @kornel okay, but they didn't seem to have any issues with supporting the Widevine DRM modules which aren't written in Rust
     
     Cisco's OpenH264 is 150,000 lines of C++. When are they gonna eject that?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 03:34:01 JST lainy

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     • feld
     @feld @kornel lots of people want to watch Netflix but nobody cares about another random image format that google invented
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 03:38:39 JST feld

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     • lainy
     @lain @kornel Google didn't invent this one!
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