Notable JPEG2000 items

Two items of note, one discouraging and one encouraging, have happened
this month with regards to the wider adoption of JPEG2000.  You can read
more details about each of these in blog postings at the URLs offered.

First is a "feeler" from Adobe's Senior Product Manager for Adobe
Photoshop on the possibility of removing JPEG2000 support from future
editions of Photoshop (http://dltj.org/2007/04/j2k-in-photoshop/).
Comments were initially running fairly negative, but as of late the
JPEG2000 enthusiast community have been making their presence known.  It
probably isn't too late to register you opinion on Jack Nack's blog
(http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/04/jpeg_2000_do_yo.html).

Second is word from the Google Summer of Code project of two accepted
proposals related to JPEG2000:  one to add support for the image format
in Firefox browsers and another to add support in the FFmpeg media
system (http://dltj.org/2007/04/j2k-in-gsoc/).

Have news of your own?  Let us know!

Peter
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