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CW: Ranty note on Mozilla and image formats
Just in case a year of silence has not made that obvious, Mozilla has now officially announced their position on the JPEG XL format as ‘neutral’.
The same organisation that once went to great lengths to demonstrate that JPEG was good enough and adding WebP really wasn’t worth it, now (seemingly without a second thought) adds support for yet another video-based codec, AVIF, and all they have to say on the much requested JPEG XL is… ‘meh, not impressed’, basically. No elaboration on what exactly would impress them, or what they found so impressive about AVIF. (Please let me know if you have seen any.)
The GNU project has been criticised for standing by their values but doing little to advance them. Mozilla seems to be doing the opposite: dropping some of them as they advance… to the bottom of the market share chart. I really hope they can climb back on their feet.
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