I think it’s a great time to switch things over.

All major browsers and web engines support it and anything that doesn’t anymore is painfully outdated. This would offer you improved quality to storage ratios. Additionally, it would support 10bit colour which can be important with anime art.

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Well, it’s not like we couldn’t fall back to animated webps for that until it’s no longer a problem.

    Depends on how configurable image-rs is I guess.

    I could test avif for my posts tho, as I host my images with catbox anyway.

    I’m certainly curious to see if I can achieve smaller files with the same quality, as it’s always nice when browsing is fast.

    • hitagiMAEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      pictrs can handle it separately. It’s possible to use AVIF for static images and GIF/WEBM for animated images. I know all modern web browsers can handle it but I’m concerned if common Lemmy apps can.

      This is an AVIF image to test:

      edit: I tested a bunch of Lemmy apps on Android. Voyager was the only one that could display properly.

      • MentalEdgeEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Voyager was the only one that could display properly.

        Works on thunder.

        • hitagiMAEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Good to know that Thunder and Voyager works. It doesn’t for Jerboa, Boost, and Sync. Maybe we can open an issue or message the developers about it.

          Not sure how it is for iOS apps though.

          • MentalEdgeEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Might be android version dependent? Because now I’m on my second phone (on an older android version) and here it doesn’t work in Thunder.

            • Toes♀OPEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              Which android version out of curiosity?

            • hitagiMAEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              I see. That could also be the problem. In that case, it might be better to stick with WEBP so other people aren’t left out.

      • wjs018English
        4·
        2 days ago

        The apps are a good point. The image does display correctly in an Android browser, but doesn’t load in any of the apps that I have installed.

      • Toes♀OPEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Oh that’s fascinating. I wonder if they are using the same misconfigured library. I had assumed since the browser engines could, so would the app.