Isn't It Time for AVIF Everywhere?

https://www.michaelponders.com/2026/11/isnt-it-time-for-avif-everywhere.html

19•speckx•1d ago

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DivingForGold•1d ago

Seems about time we have ANOTHER round of serious investigations into collusion in the memory industry artificially driving up prices ...

ChrisArchitect•1d ago

Don't you mean JPEG XL?

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224

anilgulecha•25m ago

Jpeg-XL's key win was only lossless translation of existing jpeg to a modern format. Mostly for archives where you don't want a lossy translation.

In terms of picture quality for given size, AVIF has it solidly beat.

mort96•15m ago

You could make an argument that we should have AVIF everywhere on the web. But if you want a single image format to be everywhere, I think JPEG-XL is just better suited. AVIF has restrictions on resolutions and number of planes, and doesn't do lossless very well. It's competitive with AVIF on lossy image quality (even though yes, AVIF does seem like it tends to consistently have the advantage there).

anilgulecha•11m ago

Image formats goes in era, and there's no need for monoculture. But given we're talking exabytes of data, for this era, the author rightly articulates why AVIF should win. Should JPEGXL2 beat it in the future then it can take over for a decade. We seem to essentially have gone through like 4 formats so far: gif, jpg, PNG and webp. On vector side, SVG has no real competition - it's solid.

mort96•4m ago

The author is explicitly arguing for an AVIF monoculture. AVIF isn't an appropriate format for an image format monoculture, but JPEG-XL could be.

"We should use AVIF for most web images" is a different statement which I have no problem with.

thekid314•21m ago

Absolutely agree, for my photo portfolio website AVIF allows me to serve higher quality photos faster to potential clients.

I’ll just drop my AVIF local support for Wordpress plugin here: https://github.com/ddegner/avif-local-support

origini•12m ago

Yeah why not?

Because whenever I download an image and its webp, the next thing i do is i google "webp to png/jpg" conversation because yeah service XY or Tool Z doesn't support it.

Or my Fire TV Stick :(

I configure my nginx to serve everything available though. Thats what i can do.

nwah1•8m ago

Regular JPEG can also be compressed much more than it usually is:

https://symbiogenesis.github.io/DotJpegli/

However, video would matter so much more than images, to the overall internet, that images don't even matter by comparison.

flerchin•1m ago

Maybe a middle out compression is the way to go.

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