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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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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 |
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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 |