Company
Date Published
Oct. 3, 2020
Author
Kornel LesiƄski
Word count
1380
Language
English
Hacker News points
4

Summary

Image Resizing has added support for the new AVIF image format, which offers significantly better compression than older formats such as WebP and JPEG. This can save bandwidth and improve overall web performance. The AVIF format is a combination of the HEIF ISO standard and the royalty-free AV1 codec by Mozilla, Xiph, Google, Cisco, and others. It supports 10- and 12-bit color at full resolution, and high dynamic range (HDR). Adoption of AVIF is expected to be faster than previous image formats due to its superior compression capabilities and backing from major tech companies.