JPEG XL found in wincodec.h – suggesting coming Windows support (opens in new tab)

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42 pointsscorpio2412y ago7 comments

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According to Microsoft documentation[1], "This header is used by Windows Imaging Component. For more information, see[2]"

It's good to see Jpeg XL support in Windows, but unfortunately it probably won't become a widespread standard until it becomes available in Chrome (again)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincodec... [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_wic/

google2341232y ago

Why can’t Jpeg come up with a new standard that’s so much better than the current ones that people will have to adopt it instead of something that’s maybe slightly better in some circumstances…

themerone2y ago

Jpeg XL is the so much better codec. It's not being adopted everywhere because the guy behind webp format blocked it from Chrome.

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cjawdb2y ago

They did. It's called JXL. JXL is clearly technically superior to WebP and AVIF and the decisions from the Chromium team (not even Google as a whole, since they have a Google Research team working on JXL encoders/decoders) have faced a ton of criticism because they're vague and mostly false and seem to be based on internal politics and Chromium being able to dictate web standards due to having de facto control over the browser engine market.

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based_gigachad22y ago

According to Microsoft documentation[1], "This header is used by Windows Imaging Component. For more information, see[2]"

It's good to see Jpeg XL support in Windows, but unfortunately it probably won't become a widespread standard until it becomes available in Chrome (again)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincodec... [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_wic/

google2341232y ago

themerone2y ago

Jpeg XL is the so much better codec. It's not being adopted everywhere because the guy behind webp format blocked it from Chrome.

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cjawdb2y ago

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