Ubuntu's Firefox May Gain JPEG 2000 Support

[laststop]

Does other OS software like GIMP and co support JPEG 2000 too? Who needs JPEG 2000?

NASA likes to release big images from Mars in JPEG2000.

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/jp2.html

[deanjo]

I'm sure all distros would consider shipping a patch if one existed.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Some distro's like openSUSE/SLED and RH/Fed err on the side of caution when it comes to items that may cause potential legal issues.

[agd5f]

I'm sure all distros would consider shipping a patch if one existed.

[Ant P.]

Firefox 2 with its weird slow GTK emulation sucked harder than Konqueror did. It's a shame Konqueror hasn't done much since then, if it had an extension API (preferably not limited to JS) I'd use it.

[RealNC]

just use konqueror people.

Konqueror totally sucks. Well, for me at least.

[chaos386]

You do know what Mozilla is, right? The MNG farce extends back long before Firefox existed.

Yes, I know what Mozilla is, but I assumed he was only talking about Firefox, since back in the Netscape days, they could have easily had a license for GIF, and not enough people used vanilla Mozilla back in the day to make it a worthwhile target to sue. Plus, GIF was a lot more widespread back then than JPEG2000 is now, making it more important to support.

Or maybe the guy who developed JPEG2000 drove over one of the Mozilla developer's cats, who knows?

[Ant P.]

Probably because those patents expired before Firefox had its first release.

You do know what Mozilla is, right? The MNG farce extends back long before Firefox existed.

[energyman]

just use konqueror people. Firefox is badly ported windows software anyway.

About patents: submarine patents are a problem everywhere. This can only be changed, if the us patent office would finally wake up and ban/nullify all software related patents.

everywhere corrupt politicians try to introduce software patents - despite the fact that it is toxic for all and every kind of advancement

[drelyn86]

I thought the image format wars were over about 10 years ago...
and what advantages does it have over PNG?

[b15hop]

Tell me.. Why bother having a Jpeg 2000 format if no one uses it? This should have been done AGES ago...