1/16/2023 0 Comments Webkit safari![]() While communicating with Normand, I serendipitously stumbled upon a podcast episode entitled, Is Safari the new IE?. Normand told me that while AVIF support was added to WebKit, it was only functional in the WebKitGTK (Gnome’s browser engine) and WPE (a browser for embedded devices) ports, not the Apple Safari ports. I reached out to Philippe Normand, another WebKit contributor that worked on the AVIF feature, and asked him why Safari still didn’t support AVIF. When the new Safari beta was released months later, AVIF support was missing. ![]() In April 2021, ChangSeok Oh, a WebKit contributor, added AVIF support to WebKit, providing hope to web designers and developers that Safari would soon gain support for AVIF. AVIF is superior to WebP, and it has early support from Chrome and Firefox, but it’s noticeably absent, yet again, in Safari. We are now entering familiar territory with a new image format called AVIF. Web designers and developers either had to create multiple image types for the same image or pay for a service like Cloudflare’s Polish to automatically swap out JPEG and PNG images with WebP images for browsers that support WebP. While it was technically possible to serve WebP images before Safari supported them, it wasn’t practical. ![]() Apple’s refusal to add WebP support delayed its use by webmasters, designers, and developers primarily because Safari is the dominant browser on mobile devices. ![]() It took Apple ten years to add WebP support – the successor to JPEG and PNG image formats – to its Safari browser. ![]()
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