Avif on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/avif/ Recent content in Avif on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:11:40 -0400 Falling Behind With Image Formats https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/posts/falling-behind-with-image-formats/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:11:40 -0400 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/posts/falling-behind-with-image-formats/ <p>As I&rsquo;ve been exploring the move from Wordpress over to Hugo, I&rsquo;ve learned that Hugo has pipelines that can run when it &ldquo;compiles&rdquo; the site. One such set of pipelines can automatically convert images to different formats or change the resolution of the image. They give the example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP">WebP</a> and how it can potentially be smaller than a JPEG image without a perceptible loss of quality. I remember when there was a big controversy with Wordpress because after not having support for WebP for so long, they decided they were going to convert everyone&rsquo;s image to WebP after upload. For image-heavy sites this could result in a large hard disk usage, so I think the conversion was left as opt-in. As I started researching, I found out that WebP is SOOO 14 years ago! The new format supported by all the browsers is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF">AVIF</a>. This is supposed to be every better for photographic images than WebP. But even THAT is not the newest (and supposed) best format as that would be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL">JPEG XL</a>. However, Google took it out of Chromium due to a &ldquo;lack of desire&rdquo; and since every browser but Firefox is Chromium, that&rsquo;s as good as a ban on the format.</p>

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