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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by freeone3000 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:44AM (#18154635)
It's better than JPEG and PNG for most uses, with smaller image sizes. Even 4:2:0 is better than the sRGB usually used in PNG. I'd rather have this now than wait another few years for a few niche usecases (where TIFF can still be used)
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by astrange on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:58AM (#18154681)
You can use AV1 or HEIF right now, and they're actually modern formats.

> Even 4:2:0 is better than the sRGB usually used in PNG.

Better for what? Not for wide-color photographs or any kind of colored text, that's for sure.

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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by devwastaken on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:06AM (#18154706)
Afaik there is no av1 or heif browser implementations. Theres far less efficient polyfills for heif that are poor on large images.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by gardaani on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:59AM (#18155141)
Chrome 70 Canary and Firefox Nightly support AV1. YouTube has a test channel with AV1 encoded videos.

https://9to5google.com/2018/09/14/youtube-av1-video-beta-chr...

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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by devwastaken on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:39PM (#18157410)
That is very, very new, and afaik it uses the poorly performing reference Implimentation.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by astrange on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:46AM (#18154868)
HEIF works in Safari, and I believe Android will have it soon if it doesn't already. As for AV1, browsers can add it anytime they want…
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by ValentineC on Sunday October 07, 2018 @12:37AM (#18158864)
Looking at CanIUse [1][2], it seems like the HEIF support is in macOS itself, and not the Safari browser. I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows version of Safari didn't support it.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif

[2] https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/3767

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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by Flimm on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:20AM (#18158962)
Safari for Windows has been discontinued a few years back.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by imaginenore on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:20AM (#18154767)
JPEG can do 4:4:4. And so can PNG.
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