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Is it enabled by default in Firefox yet? I've just tried: https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/ https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/ on two Linux

by berkut 4y ago

Is it enabled by default in Firefox yet? I've just tried: https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/ https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/ on two Linux machines with Firefox 105, and both showed the alt image text, so I guess maybe not, although it's showing up as enabled in about:config. Edit: https://avif.io/ https://avif.io/ seems to work and display converted .jpg files, so maybe the first URL is old and doesn't work.

shmerl 4y ago
Firefox supports AVIF out of the box for a while already.
- josephg 4y ago
  Only still images apparently. Not supported in Safari yet (though its coming) and Edge has no support: https://caniuse.com/avif https://caniuse.com/avif HEIF doesn't work in any web browser: https://caniuse.com/heif https://caniuse.com/heif
  - shmerl 4y ago
    What's the point of animated AVIF vs for example AV1 video file?
    - extra88 4y ago
      My guess is as a drop-in replacement for GIF; use the <img> element instead of the more complicated <video> element, an inherent lack of audio, no need to specify looping or lack of video controls, etc. I think Safari already supports using at least one actual video format as the `src` in an <img> element but it's weird to do so.
jeroenhd 4y ago
The first URL doesn't even show the fallback JPEG for me on Firefox for Android so there's probably something else interfering with the use of that website. My browser seems to render AVIF just fine on Ubuntu and Manjaro, with Nvidia and Intel GPU backends. If it works with hardware acceleration on top of Nvidia's shitty drivers, I assume it'll work everywhere. I've heard some old bug reports about colour management and AVIF not working together well in Firefox, that was the reason support had been baked in for a whole but the format was still locked behind a flag. I suppose they fixed that now that they enable the format by default.
- Zardoz84 4y ago
  The avif image URLs of these page are broken. at least, give me a nice 404 page

by berkut 4y ago

shmerl 4y ago

Firefox supports AVIF out of the box for a while already.

josephg 4y ago
Only still images apparently. Not supported in Safari yet (though its coming) and Edge has no support: https://caniuse.com/avif https://caniuse.com/avif HEIF doesn't work in any web browser: https://caniuse.com/heif https://caniuse.com/heif
- shmerl 4y ago
  What's the point of animated AVIF vs for example AV1 video file?
  - extra88 4y ago
    My guess is as a drop-in replacement for GIF; use the <img> element instead of the more complicated <video> element, an inherent lack of audio, no need to specify looping or lack of video controls, etc. I think Safari already supports using at least one actual video format as the `src` in an <img> element but it's weird to do so.

jeroenhd 4y ago

The first URL doesn't even show the fallback JPEG for me on Firefox for Android so there's probably something else interfering with the use of that website. My browser seems to render AVIF just fine on Ubuntu and Manjaro, with Nvidia and Intel GPU backends. If it works with hardware acceleration on top of Nvidia's shitty drivers, I assume it'll work everywhere. I've heard some old bug reports about colour management and AVIF not working together well in Firefox, that was the reason support had been baked in for a whole but the format was still locked behind a flag. I suppose they fixed that now that they enable the format by default.

Zardoz84 4y ago
The avif image URLs of these page are broken. at least, give me a nice 404 page