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by jacobgkau 362 days ago
JPEG XL is similarly an algorithm that's been published, but Google removed it from their browser and Mozilla followed suit, which effectively killed its usefulness as a web-friendly (and, more generally, usable-anywhere) format.
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Some nuance there — it's not dead yet: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
> the reference decoder, which weighs in at more than 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++.

Wow! I have never written a compression codec implementation, but that's kind of staggering.

Thanks, do you know the status of said safe decoder?
I do not, sorry.