This decision has probably saved us from a decade long trickle of very embarrassing security vulnerabilities.
And has also gifted us a decade of less, but also more interesting, security vulnerabilities.
Good algorithm, bad name. JPEG Extra Large.
O.g. JPEG has bad reputation, because of visual artifacts.
The dream lives on.
♥️ jpegxl
It’s sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this.
I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.
Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It’s not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team.