Browsers pushing AVIF media format?

[Ice Tea]

Anyone else think that AVIF looks crap?

I don't get it when you consider the amount of bandwidth and processing power webpages now use with java and scripts , does it matter if a picture is 3kb or 1kb?

Example:

https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/

Look at the first F1 photo and swap between Original and AVIF on the tabs at the bottom of the screen while looking at the tarmac top left corner and see how the markings disappear.

*Edit*

Correction in post 14

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/35081326/

Well that's embarrassing , i've just noticed that the original tab is a 2.5mb raw png and not a jpg that i thought that it was so swapping between the actual JPEG and AVIF tabs there is very little difference.

I blame early morning posting that i didn't even notice the second tab say JPEG and most of the quality was already lost, SIGH!

 

[Ice Tea]

Well that's embarrassing , i've just noticed that the original tab is a 2.5mb raw png and not a jpg that i thought that it was so swapping between the actual JPEG and AVIF tabs there is very little difference.

I blame early morning posting that i didn't even notice the second tab say JPEG and most of the quality was already lost, SIGH!

 

[Ice Tea]

It's nothing to do with your browser. The website you're visiting controls what content you get.

Netflix started pushing for the adoption for AVIF format a couple of years back as they see the current JPEG format as being as outdated as Divx.

https://netflixtechblog.com/avif-for-next-generation-image-coding-b1d75675fe4

Google Chrome devs jumped aboard shortly after and recently other browsers such as Firefox and Mediaplayers such as VLC have now added support for AVIF so it does have everything to do with your browser if the industry is pushing the format and not Web Devs.

 

[Ice Tea]

Browsers are introducing support for it because it has many benefits and people want to use it.

But your browser is not forcing it on you. If you visit a website and you see an image in AVIF format it's because the web developer has chosen to show you that format - not because your browser is forcing it on you.

No one said it was being forced , you seem to be having your own separate conversation?

 

[Ice Tea]

I'm replying to the thread title. You say browsers are pushing the format but I say that web developers are free to use any format they want. If you see an AVIF image on a website, it's a decision made by a web developer not a browser developer.

Pushing as in moving forward and adding it's support to the current growing industry list , nothing to do with being forced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#AVIF_support