0003815: Switch to WebP consistently for raster images (on hold) - Composr CMS feature tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003815	Composr	core	public	2019-06-10 17:13	2019-11-14 22:03

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To
Severity	feature
Status	non-assigned	Resolution	open
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Summary	0003815: Switch to WebP consistently for raster images (on hold)
Description	WebP now offers better lossless and lossy compression than PNG and JPEG. As Microsoft have switched to Chromium, the only hold-out browser without WebP support is Safari. Once Safari has added support, we can put ourselves all-in with WebP for any non-vector images.
Additional Information	Other formats are around which are not supported by browsers: - flif (Cloudinary, comparable results to webp so not likely to get much traction https://cloudinary.com/blog/flif_the_new_lossless_image_format_that_outperforms_png_webp_and_bpg) - jpeg XR (Microsoft, dead like due to politics) - jpeg XL (still under development, promising but very early days) - pik (Google, seems to be more of a side-project strangely) - bpg (like WebP but based off a better video codec) - avif/heif (like WebP but based off a better video codec, promising) There is so much politics and opinion. At the end of the day we only support what browsers can, and are unlikely to do browser-specific transcoding within Composr like Cloudflare or Google Amp might. WebP would provide a decent byte saving.
Tags	Roadmap: v12, Type: Performance, Type: Standards compliance
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-06-10 17:13	Chris Graham	New Issue
2019-06-10 17:14	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Type: Performance
2019-06-10 17:14	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Type: Standards compliance
2019-11-14 22:01	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Roadmap: v12