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by llm_nerd8 hours ago |
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upvoteby spartanatreyu4 hours ago|
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> JXL was dead. Apple is who brought it back to life

No, it was actually the PDF Association.

They added JXL to the PDF standard.

If google wanted to maintain support for displaying PDFs, they would need to add support for JXL.

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upvoteby alwillis1 hours ago|
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>> JXL was dead. Apple is who brought it back to life

> No, it was actually the PDF Association.

The PDF Association didn't adopt JPEG-XL until September 2025. By then, Apple had been shipping JPEG-XL in Safari for two years [1]. So there's that.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/14205/news-from-wwdc23-webkit-featur...

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upvoteby NewJazz4 hours ago|
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* wanted to maintain support for displaying jxl images that are embedded in PDFs
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upvoteby llm_nerd4 hours ago|
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The PDF consortium added JXL to the PDF spec two years after Apple deployed support to billions of devices. To anyone ackchyually paying attention to the JXL spec, lamenting that this superior format wallowed in obscurity (largely, it should be noted, because Google dumped it, and so many others just follow the leader of Google), Apple actually completely changed the path of the format's adoption.
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upvoteby ChoosesBarbecue6 hours ago|
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I believe Firefox was the first to put out a standards position about adopting jxl if a Rust implementation happened. Chromium only aligned their position this year I believe, prior to that, it was a complete rejection.

Which is to say, Chrome followed Firefox here.

(Yes, I know Google Research implemented jxl-rs, but then, they also implemented jxl. Chrome’s position appears independent of them.)

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upvoteby deadbunny8 hours ago|
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I wasn't complaining, it's a factual statement made sarcasticly.

Things apple do because apple do:

- make a mouse you can't use while charging it

- gets bored of the power inefficency L of x86, makes the fastest arm cpu that causes x86 manufacturers get serious about power

- hey, those f keys? what if useless strip

- decades ahead in panel tech and refuses to compromise

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upvoteby concinds7 hours ago|
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I don't see what this has to do with the topic, sorry.
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upvoteby wongarsu7 hours ago|
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Their point is that Apple is the Nintendo of computing. They don't care what others do, they just do their own thing. Which produces some great things and some stupid things. They also don't care whether you think what they are doing is great or stupid, they just continue doing their thing

Which then tracks back to the beginning of the thread: the correct answer to whether apple will adopt jxl-rs or keep libjxl is "who knows, no point trying to predict them". Which is not a value judgement

How you square all of that with the iPhone regularly copying features Android had for years is your decision. Might be a symptom of the same, might be that this all was an entirely inaccurate description of Apple

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upvoteby _joel7 hours ago|
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That useless strip could play lemmings and doom, it wasn't all bad
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upvoteby tombert5 hours ago|
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> make a mouse you can't use while charging it

I'm not one to usually defend Apple-ism, but it always felt that this was such a nothing-burger. The mouse charges in like fifteen minutes and lasts for weeks. I don't have a work Macbook (or job :) ) right now, but when I did I would just occasionally plug it in while I went to the bathroom. It really was not nearly as annoying as everyone said it was.

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upvoteby spartanatreyu4 hours ago|
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Remember all those times you needed to make a change to something a few minutes before it was submitted/presented?

Imagine if you couldn't, because you needed to charge your mouse first.

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