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We recently updated IKEA.com to serve AVIFs to browsers that support them where they are smaller for the same level of perceptual quality. Even without Safari support we saw an overall drop in image bandwidth of 21.4% which, considering the amount of traffic we get, is a major chunk of cash saved.

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Do you know if Safari will ever support one of the newer formats?

WebKit already supports AVIF directly, but Safari disables that and relies on macOS’s image decoders, which currently don’t.[1] I imagine it’ll arrive at some point.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207750#c25

Hopefully. Safari is the new IE, that's for sure.

You can add Edge to that pile too, because even though Chromium supports AVIF Microsoft intentionally disable it.

That's insignificant compared to the list of things safari does differently.

And apple doesn't give ios uses any choice. You are stuck dealing with those differences.

> And apple doesn't give ios uses any choice. You are stuck dealing with those differences.

Yeah, that's by far the worst part. Imagine being stuck with IE indefinitely. :)

https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-...

Running Epiphany (WebKit2) on Linux. But it seem like not turned ON up until now?

https://libre-software.net/avif-test/

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