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Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL
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Thanks to wasm, you don't have to bow to Google's whim and can choose to include jpeg xl support on your websites if you want: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js
Do you know if it uses the native decoder if available (so, in Safari I guess)? Doesn't say in the readme.
I believe so. This line in the source code means it'll only attempt the decoding if an
imgelement for a.jxlimage url fails to load.If you're on safari, you can verify it by going to the demo page at https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/ and inspect the image element. If the
srcattributes contain blob, then it's decoded using the wasm decoder. If thesrcattribute contains url to a.jxlfile, then it's decoded natively.Very cool, thanks. Will keep this in mind.
I read "wasm" as per "wasp" -- white, Anglo-Saxon -- and then my brain create "men" because Protestant didn't make sense. And I continued to read the sentence until context didn't make sense.
But it still kind of does.
(Yes, I know web assembly is a thing. Just making conversation.)
Wasps are also a type of insect.