alt Hacker NewsIt's exciting to see JXL support being re-added in Chrome after being removed a while ago and them seemingly not being interested in supporting it [1].
I think JXL is a cool image format, but was being held back by the most popular browser not supporting it, limiting its use (in the web especially) by a lot.
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Yes I think the major story here is Google removing and then re-adding it back. Big companies have big egos, so this is quite a miracle.
I have a feeling now JXL is here to stay, finally.
Why do browsers need to support every media format? Why can't it be shipped as a shared library for the whole system to use?
> removed a while ago and them seemingly not being interested in supporting it
Removed because no one from Google benifits from supporting it then.
Re-added because someone could get a promotion by supporting it now.
Wasn't it due to poor security? libjxl had notorious bugs that would've on par with webp exploit, if present in browser:
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/?search=libjxl
I remember Project Zero cautioning Google's browser team against adding insecure decoders/encoders.