According to Zhiding.com, new AVIF format pictures will appear in Web browsers soon. It is reported that the support of AVIF for the Chrome browser and Firefox browser is nearing completion. Among them, Mozilla has been supporting AVIF since January 2020. According to its plan, this feature should have been released with Firefox 76 in May, but due to the impact of the epidemic, this feature is still in Firefox Nightly. test. It is expected that the version that supports AVIF will be officially released with Firefox 80 at the end of the summer or the end of August.
The experimental function of AVIF in Firefox Nightly
On the Google side, because it believes that the risk of the function is low, it directly skips the testing link. Chrome 85, which officially supports AVIF, is expected to be released sometime in August. In addition, other browsers based on the Chromium project can also get this feature update, such as Edge, Opera, and Percent Browser.
AVIF stands for AV1 Image File and was developed in 2015 based on AV1 encoding. The compression ratio exceeds PNG, WebP, and other formats and is considered to be one of the best image formats.
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