Apple Adds WebP Image Support in Safari 14

[Webbigail]

I would rather have FLIF support.

WebP in lossless mode consistently provides better compression rates than FLIF. (At the same quality. Lossless means lossless.) The only thing FLIF has going for it is progressive decoding. That becomes less of an issue as file sizes keep decreasing and data speeds and availability keeps increasing.

I would prefer if they went all in on AVIF.

AVIF’s file crunching ability is quite impressive.

And everyone forgot about APNG

What about it? It’s been supported in Safari (and other leading browsers) for years already! E.g. the animation six paragraphs into this article uses APNG. The quality is great, but the file sizes leaves a lot to be desired. APNG is the best option in a very limited set of circumstances where you want to preserve full quality without any regard to the file size. It’s just that you rarely want true-lossless video and animations. WebP can do lossy and lossless animation frames in the same image file. So you can get the best of both worlds.

 

[farewelwilliams]

What about it? It’s been supported in Safari (and other leading browsers) for years already! E.g. the animation six paragraphs into this article uses APNG. The quality is great, but the file sizes leaves a lot to be desired. APNG is the best option in a very limited set of circumstances where you want to preserve full quality without any regard to the file size. It’s just that you rarely want true-lossless video and animations. WebP can do lossy and lossless animation frames in the same image file. So you can get the best of both worlds.

it wasn't supported by IE/Edge for the longest time. wasn't until Edge Chromium is when microsoft started supporting it.

i'm not talking about full PNG movie frames, but there are plenty of instances where APNG would have been great. back in 2018, Facebook Stickers used PNG and used Javascript to cycle through the PNG frames. APNG would have been the perfect use case here.

 

[827538]

AVIF’s file crunching ability is quite impressive.

AVIF and it's sibling AV1 should really become the new standards for images and video, with OPUS for audio. There's really no good reason why not, free open standards, easily the best at what they each do (the AV1 encoders are getting there), all play nicely together. The days of royalty standards like H.265 are going to die. Especially when every major tech company is now behind supporting them.