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submitted 2 years ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

Context: Even though Chromium has native support for AVIF, a very nice image format, Microsoft goes out of their way to remove it from Edge, which is a chromium fork. Jpeg XL (JXL) (not to be confused with Jpeg (JPG) or Jpeg 2000 (jpg2k) ) is another nice image format, which, IIRC, is only supported in Firefox.

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[-] renzev@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Discussion thread: What's your favourite image format and why?

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 58 points 2 years ago

Png because it's lossless and pretty universal. Svg is pretty cool because it's vectorized but it's also a pain to make good svg.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Still waiting for animated PNG. It would make it the perfect universal compressed image format.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Animated PNG actually does exist but it has poor support coverage.

I remember using it to make whatsapp animated stickers

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All major browsers (98% of all users) have supported APNG since at least 2020

Firefox: 2008.
Safari: 2014.
Chrome: 2017.
Edge: 2020.

https://caniuse.com/apng

I believe the photo app in Win 10 (and maybe 11) still doesn't support it but that shouldn't hinder web devs.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't even know that was a think. That would be hella cool.

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

WebP cause small size, can be transparent, can be animated, can use either loseless and lossy compression. Also it pisses of many people which is funny to me.

[-] drkt@feddit.dk 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you want to piss people off, support JPEG XL

Every time you mention it, ~~Google shills~~ WebP supporters come out of the woodworks to do their song and dance!

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I''m working on a website right now, trying to choose which image format to use. I think I'm gonna store both webp and AVIF versions on the server, and have Javascript figure out which format is best for the browser automatically (for images that have to be loaded with Javascript anyway).If I have time, I might even try detecting if JXL is supported via third-party extension and using that too.

[-] drkt@feddit.dk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

have Javascript figure out which format is best for the browser

Please don't- HTML has native image fallback functionality https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_picture.asp

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lemmy swallowed my codeblock, take this instead

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71719254/correct-way-to-display-an-img-fallback

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[-] renzev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info! I was already suspecting that this could be done without JS, just didn't know how.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The pissing people off part is why I post all my memes in webp haha

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Extremely based

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

Gif because its correct pronunciation is gif.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Encapsulated Postscript, because I like my images Turing-complete.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do you write postscript by hand? I once got the change to take a postscript programming class, but sadly I didn't (I wish I did tho). How does it compare with SVG? I know SVG has a lot of limitations (for example, you can't change the color of a shape filled with a pattern), so I guess eps' turing completeness lets you overcome things like that, since you can just program in whatever functionality you need?

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

JXL. Better compression in my testing and better quality. Also very flexible format with JPEG compatibility

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Any of them that don't have drm schemes in them.

[-] gens@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Now BC7 because i'm playing with graphics programming. Usually... png i guess because it's simple.

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