Safari goes all-in on images
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Apple will ship support for the JPEG XL and HEIC image formats in Safari 17. Safari 17 will be the only browser to support the 3 most modern image formats: AVIF, HEIC, and JPEG XL.
This was announced at The Worldwide Developers Conference 2023, you can watch a short video presentation to hear Apple’s thoughts on images.
I spoke about Google’s opposition to JPEG XL in a recent post. I hope that Google are paying attention to Apple and that they reconsider their position. JPEG XL and AVIF are 2 different beasts. It would be refreshing if every major browser implemented all of the modern image formats, just like Apple. 🤞