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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 5 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

edit

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 5 months 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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Extremely based

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago

Gif because its correct pronunciation is gif.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months 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?

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] gens@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

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