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I've mentioned this topic in regards to animated images, but don't see as big a reason to push for static formats due to the overall relatively limited benefits other than wider gamut and marginally smaller file size (percentage wise they are significant, but 2KB vs 200KB is paltry on even a terrible connection in the 2000s).
What I really wish is that we could get more browsers, sites, and apps to universally support more modern formats to replace the overly bloated terribly performing and never correctly pronounced animated formats like GIF with something else like AVIF, webm, webp (this was a roughly ~60MB GIF, and becomes a 1MB WEBP with better performance), or even something like APNG...
Besides wider gamut, and better performance, the sizes are actually significant on all but the fastest connections and save sites on both storage and bandwidth at significant scale compared to the mere KB of change that a static modern asset has.
This WEBP is only 800KB but only shows up on some server instances since not every Lemmy host supports embedding them :
Is that last webp animated? Asking because I know jerboa (Lemmy client) doesn't play animated images
It's animated for me using Thunder
Yea, it's animated for me on a web client. Looks quite good tbh.
It's pronounced GIF
You still need to resize the images and choose the right ones (even if only for the device's performance).
So we might as well do that small extra step and add conversion to the process.
Isn't that the users' fault? And of the websites for allowing those huge GIFs.
Apparently browsers have supported MP4 for a long time.
https://caniuse.com/mpeg4
How are you auto converting images to webp?? What is this magic. My company uses Visual Studio 2022 and our creative guy is having to save everything manually in multiple formats. Then our devs put in the webp first with a jpeg fallback, but it's all so manual.
Funny you call it magic, what actually does the conversion is Imagick.
In my project I have it integrated in the upload process. You upload a PNG/JPG and it does its thing. Since it's written in PHP (my project), and PHP has an extension to call Imagick, I didn't need to write any complicated code.
You can see on this page if your programming language of choice has any integration with Imagick.
But there's always the command line interface. Depending on your process it may be easier to create a script to "convert all images in a folder", for example.