Once your image CDN is (correctly) set up, support for any new lighter/faster image format is like infinite ROI: "much lighter images" divided by "zero additional cost". 🥰
It could even cost you less, if you pay based on bandwidth… 🎉
Should I please Lighthouse with modern image formats, or my visitors with progressive rendering of large images in my photography site? 🤔
Of course, this would be much easier with genaralized JPEG XL support, both modern and allowing progressive… 🤷♂️
Most mentions of the magical CSS object-fit: cover; in development tutorials should be accompanied by a warning: in most situations, it means the browser will download an image that is larger than required (at least in one direction), and optimization on the server side could be a better option.
Jon Sneyers
This consolidates JPEG XL’s position as the best image codec currently available, for both lossless and lossy compression, across the quality range…
the Interop team
JPEG XL has not been selected for Interop 2024
Thank you for proposing JPEG XL image format for inclusion in Interop 2024. We wanted to let you know that this proposal was not selected to be part…
Sizes="auto" pretty much requires width and height attributes
sizes="auto" is a great new feature of HTML for lazy loaded responsive images. are we dealing with an with sizes=auto? Then its natural dimensions…
Eric Portis