Daala Progress in 2014
The Daala team has been hard at work making improvements to our royalty-free video codec. This year we’ve spent a large amount of effort improving still image coding and building … Read more
Articles in “General”
JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
by Josh Matthews and Keegan McAllister A web browser’s purpose in life is to mediate interaction between a user and an application (which we somewhat anachronistically call a "document"). Users … Read more
WebGL in Web Workers, Today – and Faster than Expected!
Web Workers are additional threads that a website can create. Using workers, a website can utilize multiple CPU cores to speed itself up, or move heavy single-core processing to a … Read more
Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of mozjpeg 2.0. Early this year, we explained that we started this project to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining … Read more
Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project
Today I’d like to announce a new Mozilla project called ‘mozjpeg’. The goal is to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority … Read more
Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency
JPEG has been the only widely supported lossy compressed image format on the Web for many years. It was introduced in 1992, and since then a number of proposals have … Read more