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Hasty Treat - The New AVIF Image Format Is Unreal
๐ Download Showโ๏ธ Edit Show NotesIn this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AVIF โ what it is and how you might use it!
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Show Notes
03:10 - What is AVIF?
- AVIF is derived from the keyframes of an AV1 video
- Royalty free (big deal)
- What about WebP?
- Basically half the file size of a WebP for free, which was already about half the size of a jpeg
- It's a lossy format โ ie it inherently will degrade the image
- https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/
- No animation
10:53 - How to implement
- Cloudinary is in beta, but you can try it
- Gatsby supports it
- https://squoosh.app/
- Imagemin
- https://github.com/nucliweb/imagemin-avif
- https://avif.io/
- https://github.com/dreampiggy/AVIFQuickLook
- https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/20765
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