On: Google unkills JPEG XL?

[binary132]

Starting to feel like this whole "standards" thing is a giant farce

[criddell → binary132]

Well, there are de jure standards (what the w3c says a browser should do) and de facto standards (what Chrome does).

[shadowgovt → criddell]

As it ever was. Standards are a three-edged sword: spec, intent of spec, and implementations of spec.

[izacus → binary132]

Which standard requires support of JXL?

[scheme271 → izacus]

The PDF association apparently recently added jpeg xl to the pdf spec and indicated that it's the preferred solution for HDR content.

[jsheard → scheme271]

Then again PDF also technically supports embedded audio, video, 3D graphics, and arbitrary Javascript. If Flash hadn't died it would probably still support that too. It's a clown car format where everyone besides Adobe just tacitly agrees to ignore huge chunks of the spec.

[josefx → jsheard]

> It's a clown car format

As is the destiny of any document format in wide spread use, PDF had flash, doc had ActiveX.

Also this text is formatted using a mark down language fully capable of embedding entire applications.

[izacus → scheme271]

Web standard I meant. The OP didn't talk about PDFs from context.

[lgl → binary132]

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927