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The same photo of a curled-up red fox shown in four vertical slices, blurry at 4% downloaded and sharp at 100%, demonstrating JPEG XL progressive rendering
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Mozilla made Google rewrite the JPEG XL decoder in Rust before Firefox would ship it

Firefox turns JPEG XL on by default in version 157. Mozilla refused to ship 100,000 lines of C++, so Google Research wrote the decoder again in Rust.

GitHub release card for servo/servo version 0.4.0, showing the multicolour Servo hexagon logo and a note pointing to the project's June blog post
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65.9% of the web platform tests now pass in Servo, but the Rust engine can't select text

Servo 0.4.0 landed a record 558 commits and fixed layout on real sites. Its own dashboard reads 65.9%, CSS Grid sits at 37.8%, and text selection isn't shipped yet.

RFC 10008 document thumbnail from the RFC Editor showing the HTTP QUERY Method specification
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The HTTP method web devs have wanted for a decade: a GET that can carry a body

RFC 10008 standardizes HTTP QUERY: a request that's safe and idempotent like GET but ships a body like POST. Here's what it fixes and who supports it.