This is pretty huge. With both Apple and Firefox supporting it, chrome will be the only major holdout, and it could put more pressure on them to add support.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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So despite this being developed by Google, they are not putting it in chrome? That's dumb.
The Chromium team is made up of developers like James Zern (the one who closed jpegxl's inclusion as obsolete(won't fix) twice) who are active developers of Avif and Webp2. Both of those formats really suck and have a lot of problems they just handwave away. Avif is constantly breaking compatability and has some bit depth jank that breaks how it renders.
Definitely a conflict of interest... >:/
I bet Firefox is finally doing this because of the Google anti-trust lawsuit. They would always go along with Google as they got funding from them, but with that up in the air they don't need to keytoe the line anymore.
That would be really worrisome - like google told them not to do it "or else", but I very much doubt it haha. It's possible but I doubt the reasons are that complex. Hanlon's razor says it's just some guys playing favourite, others just not bothering to stick their neck out, and others worried about bugs and maintenance.
Holy shit! Finally!