Re:The past, present and future of image formats
by KronisLV on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:12AM
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Are there any statistics about how popular the current "modern" image formats are?
Because in every single dev project that I've worked on, people have typically just used JPEG or PNG, only recently having started looking at SVG for logos and such explicitly.
Now, in part it might be because of the legacy and how widely supported these formats are, but also perhaps since most of the browsers out there seem to support them pretty decently, which is why there's no need to bother with fallbacks, even if these older formats have poorer filesizes of quality.
Right now I'm just considering either finding a tool/web API for automatically preparing images for the web, since doing that manually seems a bit cumbersome, as opposed to letting some build tool do it, similarly to how JS gets minified.
Because in every single dev project that I've worked on, people have typically just used JPEG or PNG, only recently having started looking at SVG for logos and such explicitly.
Now, in part it might be because of the legacy and how widely supported these formats are, but also perhaps since most of the browsers out there seem to support them pretty decently, which is why there's no need to bother with fallbacks, even if these older formats have poorer filesizes of quality.
Right now I'm just considering either finding a tool/web API for automatically preparing images for the web, since doing that manually seems a bit cumbersome, as opposed to letting some build tool do it, similarly to how JS gets minified.