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I just relaunched a website that makes extensive use of photographic collages that necessitate alpha backgrounds. They were previously shipping "retina-grade", multi-megabyte images all over, a typical page load could easily reach 25mb. I managed to refit it with ` ` tags using WEBP as well as JP2. The latter was a great deal of trouble, it appears that "the community" (notably Gatsby and Contentful) are very happy t…
Extremely subjective, personal data point: I've been running with an extension ( https://bandwidth-hero.com/ ) that compresses all images (including jpeg) and renders them in webp. I'm a typical social networks browser, so among the images I see a high majority of them don't need high quality. I'm running the extension with max compression but still keep colors: compression artifacts are clearly visible, but in my op…
How does an extension resize an image without downloading it? Can it selectively read bytes from the stream?
Does anyone know how these compare with the HEIC format that it seems my iPhone now uses by default? Is that non-mainstream, or otherwise not fit for comparison?
https://caniuse.com/#search=heif
I'm surprised that Safari doesn't support it.
I believe Apple released a bit of Javascript that lets you embed the animated HEIF images (I think they're called "live pictures") in your web site, but that's kind of a niche use.
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How does an extension resize an image without downloading it? Can it selectively read bytes from the stream?
It uses a proxy server as said on the landing page. That said, the service is shut down apparently so you have to self-host your own proxy server. That's not too useful for me so I uninstalled the extension.
I'm using Firefox and just tried to save a webp image and it tried to save as a web page. [initially, I said no.. see edit below] Edit: Looks like it was that specific website and they are doing something odd, so I retract my initial judgement.
Is that server sending the image with the correct mimetype?
I wonder, why nobody mentioned Patrice Bellard's BPG[1]. It is based on HEVC and can be supported in any browser via a Javascript. From his website: BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format. Its purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue. Its main advantages are: * High compression ratio. Files are much smaller than JPEG for similar quality. * Supported by most Web b…
That said, I do think it's a neat project and can be used if there are proper fallbacks to formats that are natively supported.
Does anyone know how these compare with the HEIC format that it seems my iPhone now uses by default? Is that non-mainstream, or otherwise not fit for comparison?
I thought HEIC is apple only and not supported by any browser. Is it even supported by Safari?
Apple started supporting it in 2017. Microsoft in 2018.
You are correct, though — it's not supported by any browser.
The Java wrappers around a native binary are helpful, but for many projects not very useful and this hinders adoption.
https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues?q=is%3Aissue...