I cite Lemmy again. This is supposed to be a newer, better version of Reddit, basically, but I can’t even upload a WebP to my instance… when are they supposed to adopt AVIF?
If I try to host externally, which is more of a pain, very few image hosts will take an AVIF. Not a single one I found except catbox will take a JXL.
Where’s the pressure? Who’s making these files and trying to use them? Even my phone converts uploaded JXL and HEIF files to SDR JPEGs upon upload, since it rightfully assumes nothing will work with them.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I had your mindset a while back. And outside Apple, precisely nothing has changed. Its gotten more dramatic, if anything, since HDR support is now basically DOA too.
Where’s the pressure? Who’s making these files and trying to use them?
The standards bodies and the companies that pay their bills. That’s Netflix, Google, et al. All have a vested interest in good multimedia support in browsers. It’s why browsers have shockingly good support actually, most of the problems are downstream on clients and implementations that don’t know or care to enable these newer formats.
Will they, though?
I cite Lemmy again. This is supposed to be a newer, better version of Reddit, basically, but I can’t even upload a WebP to my instance… when are they supposed to adopt AVIF?
If I try to host externally, which is more of a pain, very few image hosts will take an AVIF. Not a single one I found except catbox will take a JXL.
Where’s the pressure? Who’s making these files and trying to use them? Even my phone converts uploaded JXL and HEIF files to SDR JPEGs upon upload, since it rightfully assumes nothing will work with them.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I had your mindset a while back. And outside Apple, precisely nothing has changed. Its gotten more dramatic, if anything, since HDR support is now basically DOA too.
The standards bodies and the companies that pay their bills. That’s Netflix, Google, et al. All have a vested interest in good multimedia support in browsers. It’s why browsers have shockingly good support actually, most of the problems are downstream on clients and implementations that don’t know or care to enable these newer formats.