Avif support

[milch]

Are there any existing patches to enable avif image support?
The files are smaller than jpg while looking a lot less grainy.

[Moonchild]

We don't have support for avif. If you're looking for a better image format than jpg, consider either webp (if your focus is file size for smaller images) or jpeg-XL (for all other uses). avif simply doesn't offer convincing improvements and is comparatively computationally very expensive for worse results.

[milch]

I don't need official support, was just wondering if a anyone had made a patch to add it.
I'm already on musl which I think is also unsupported?

[Moonchild]

Well, if someone has made a patch for UXP to add AVIF support, we are open to considering taking it up (we have no issue with avif support out of principle or what not), but it's just not something our current team has been focused on because there are bigger issues to tackle than an underperforming image format, even if some websites insist they want to try and push it. Our browser clearly indicates our support for all non-ubiquitous MIME types for content negotiation so we do offer all the information needed to successfully dynamically respond to requests for differing image formats.

As for musl, we don't officially support it because we have no maintainer for that support at the moment. I've clearly indicated already that here too we have no issue with support for musl as long as it does not impact stability or buildability of our standard library builds.

TL;DR: patches welcome

[milch]

I see, thank you. I might take a shot at making one myself then.
I'll be continuing to push out unoffical musl builds aswell, so no worries there.
Thanks for your time