Caspy7

Lots of people all over the world are not in the era of gigabit connections.

Safari is currently lacking animation and progressive decoding - still ahead of everyone else currently.

Looks like by the end of the year we can expect Chrome and Firefox support.

He only mentioned decode complexity. Would be interesting to know the average encode complexity compared to AV1.

Perhaps you meant lossy? Everything I'm seeing says that Opus does not support lossless.

Google Research was central in developing and continuing to push JPEG XL.

The Google Chrome folks are the ones who decided to disallow it. You could argue that they are trying to kill it, but certainly not Google at large.

Lots of people are using AV1. They just don't know it.

I believe MacOS has full support. Windows now has support available as a free installable plugin.

Mozilla said that the current decoder state was unacceptable but if Google Research wrote them a Rust version that met their shippable criteria they'd ship it. That's planned to be done this summer. So I'm optimistic Firefox will ship support (courtesy of Google Research) within the year.

That would just leave Chrome support and Windows to ship by default. I'm hoping Firefox's support would cause pressure on the Chrome team.

Ok, so this is one step in such hyper-fast data transmission. What would be the other hurdles?

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They also have a much longer history than Chrome.

Kinda glad they disallowed the extensions that had near unfettered access to browser internals.

I think you're thinking of Firefox.

None that I'm aware of but Firefox has committed to maintaining the more powerful MV2 content blocking APIs that Google is removing.