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by zokier 2729 days ago
> HEIF (based on HEVC and support on MacOS/iOS + Android + Windows) is already way better than JPEG. It also provides HW acceleration.

Formats do not provide HW acceleration, implementations do. And so far there is zero HW accelerated HEIF implementations for the web.

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> And so far there is zero HW accelerated HEIF implementations for the web.

You sure of that? Apple[1] and Qualcomm[2] might argue otherwise.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/513/

[2] https://techreport.com/news/34306/qualcomm-snapdragon-855-sp...

I don't know who downvoted you but you're correct. The point is that most devices embed an HEVC hardware decoder.