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How does it compare with FLIF? What use cases would it excel on/have that the other wouldn't/doesn't?
by nicoty 6y ago
How does it compare with FLIF? What use cases would it excel on/have that the other wouldn't/doesn't?
- tomhanlon 6y agoFLIF seems to compress higher but to my knowledge there is no major browser support. AVIF support is scheduled for Firefox 80 and Chrome 85 by the end of this month (August 25).
- kjeetgill 6y agoKnowing nothing about the formats, why the difference in adoption?
- tomhanlon 6y agoThe format was co-developed by some big tech players: Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Mozilla Further reading: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mozilla-av1-photo-format-could-outdo-aging-jpeg/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mozilla-av1-photo-format-co...
- kernelbugs 6y agoNice to note, though, is that FLIF tech will not just be thrown away. FLIF was superseded by FUIF which was then superseded by JPEG-XL. It's doesn't have as great compression in all cases as FLIF, but I'm very optimistic about JPEG-XL being a highly adopted new image format.