Re: JPEG-XL as Content-Encoding?

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Alex Deymo writes:

> I'm Alex and I'm working in the JPEG XL project. The transcoding being
> discussed for this is indeed the lossless recompression of JPEG files
> feature in JXL.
>
> JXL has many more features as a codec than what the lossless JPEG
> recompression can offer [...]

I'm sure JXL is fantastic, but despite that, a special-case
(re)compression belongs in the application-layer, not in the
transport layer.

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Received on Sunday, 23 August 2020 22:01:12 UTC