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by Vt71fcAqt7 1240 days ago
I was hoping for some mention of Av1 and Avif. Av1 still isn't supported by edge and safari. And avif isn't fully supported by firefox and safari iirc (animations), and unsupported by edge. To me, these represent the most important developments in web: movimg away from JPEG and more importantly away from GIF (and no, muted mp4 is not a replacement). Would have liked JPEG-XL obviously but that doesn't seem likely anymore.

https://caniuse.com/avif

https://caniuse.com/av1

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Meanwhile, H.265 has been around forever and still isn't supported (well or at all) in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.
And rightly so. Nobody wants to pay to watch a video, not hardware makers, streaming platforms or consumers[0].

[0]https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/hevc-video-extension...