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I don’t expect Apple to swap HEIC for JXL for iPhone 16, but I have heard the rumour…
by blurrybird 2y ago
I don’t expect Apple to swap HEIC for JXL for iPhone 16, but I have heard the rumour…
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoHEIC is an amazing format. I don't know why more companies don't use it.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoAmazingly patent-encumbered, though.
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoYeah. JPEG-XL is a really good replacement but it seems like it's getting nowhere. It's been years and the adoption is still quite underground.
- Someone 2y agoThere is some movement. Google Research recently committed to help implementing it, in Rust, for inclusion in Firefox. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064: “the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust, and integrate this decoder into Firefox. If they successfully contribute an implementation that satisfies these properties and meets our normal production requirements, we would ship it.”
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoOh that is real good news!
- kristofferR 2y agoNot really, it's a weird hack (using interframe compression from video compression) that worked fine as a stopgap, but JPEG-XL is leagues better.