JPEG XL ships in Chrome 155, three years after Google deleted it
The Chrome team has shipped decoding support for JPEG XL in Chrome 155, enabled by default, which would be routine news except for the history. Google removed JPEG XL from Chromium back in 2023, targeting M110, with stated reasons that included insufficient ecosystem interest and the maintenance burden of keeping an experimental decoder around. Three […]
Compiler optimizations, proven in Lean, squeeze 19 percent out of Skia rendering
A paper accepted at OOPSLA 2026 applies compiler theory to something most of us never think of as a compiler target: the draw commands behind every web page. In Semantics for 2D Rasterization, three researchers from the University of Utah built a formal model of Skia, the graphics library that renders Chrome, Firefox, Android, Flutter, […]