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AVIF Image Format Support

Unread post by jangdonggun1234 » 2021-01-21, 07:39

AVIF image file size is 20% smaller than WEBP and 50% smaller than JPEG, websites are starting to implement AVIF, Firefox and Chrome already enabled AVIF by default. So I think we should also implement AVIF for Pale Moon.

Article: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-avif-comparison.html

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Re: AVIF Image Format Support

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-01-21, 10:46

AVIF and similar image formats (like PIK) are not acceptable additions. Their adoption is very low. We won't be adding poorly-adopted formats to the browser, no matter how good of a compression they might have.
Technical side-note: the brain doesn't care about exact matches (and DSSIM is therefore pointless, just as PSNR is) but would rather need a perceptual scale. As such the whole argument about AVIF "being 50% smaller at the same DSSIM" is based on a criterion that is largely irrelevant.

By the way, it looks like the internet at large will be moving to JPEG-XL instead which combines new compression techniques and considerations employed by Guetzli etc.
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