> In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ... I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.
Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
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#12Here's a blog post by him: https://cloudinary.com/blog/2026-the-year-of-jpeg-xl
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.
From what I can tell, it's written by Gemini
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#14> In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ... I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.
Came here to say the same thing. Why add this fake image?
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#16Out of experimental when?
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#17Android is the only mainstream OS that does not support JPEG XL right now.
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#18That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...
> Safari (2023) led among major browsers, while Firefox and Chrome currently maintain experimental support.
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#19That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...
> Safari (2023) led among major browsers, while Firefox and Chrome currently maintain experimental support.
Chrome's blink was the only major browser engine not supporting it and that prevented it from becoming a web standard and they refused to acknowledge they were wrong.
Chrome only backtracked once jpeg-xl was subsumed into the PDF standard because if Chrome did not support jpeg-xl, they would by extension also not be supporting pdf.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Safari (2023) led among major browsers, while Firefox and Chrome currently maintain experimental support.
Yeah, but they left out that Chrome removed their own support for JPEG XL saying no one in the industry was in favour of it despite everyone seeing it was the future screaming for it and building support for it into their own products. Chrome's blink was the only major browser engine not supporting it and that prevented it from becoming a web standard and they refused to acknowledge they were wrong. Chrome only backt…