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Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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Re: Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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I don't understand how google can just be consistently on the back foot of the "tech world hivemind" for going on 7 (?) years now and have zero shakeup of not just culture but at least PR.

> Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/googles-decision-to-depr...

Re: Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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JPEG XL here is used in place of a traditional RAW format: > Additionally, storage capacity has been reduced while maintaining image quality by providing JPEG XL format.

That's what DNG is for.

I mean, JPEG XL is designed as an all-encompassing file format that also subsumes RAW and DNG. On the other hand, DNG 1.7.0.0 added JPEG XL as one of compression options back in 2022 (!), which might be what Samsung is actually using.

Re: Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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I don't understand how google can just be consistently on the back foot of the "tech world hivemind" for going on 7 (?) years now and have zero shakeup of not just culture but at least PR.

The company is literally run by a McKinsey consultant. How is anyone surprised?

Re: Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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I worked alongside the Google and Cloudinary teams who authored the JPEG XL spec and I'm glad their work's finally paying off. It's really weird Google deprecated the format despite contributing engineers to help build JPEG XL. I guess it's office politics

They want their awful webp format to win for some reason.

Re: Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

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Google, not content with existing image formats that support 10-bit like HEIC (used by Apple) and AVIF (based off of AV1, a codec that Google helped design and is better than JPEG), they decided in all their wisdom to make Ultra HDR for Android phones, which is an incompatible standard built on top of JPEG, which is separate from JPEG-XL.

Now Samsung has released Super HDR, without any information about that standard or if it relates to Google's Ultra HDR. Sigh.

Edit: I forgot about WebP/WebP2, which was also developed by Google as a JPEG replacement.

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