Support for WebP images!

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Webp has been supported for a few months now - you can go ahead and import webp images in Bootstrap Studio.

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Thanks Martin, I noticed that webP is now supported natively in the last Upgrade to Windows 10 you no longer have to download the extension App.

Ian

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@martin and what about AVIF image support? (last Sept you wrote itā€™s in your todo list)

@all the de fact standard for recompressing/converting images atm is https://squoosh.app/

so my workflow is still to keep the original with 100% quality (very large image) and then reconvert and compress to MozJPEG + WebP + AVIF

then use the picture tag to insert the 3 formats in my website HTML and optionally detect browser capabilities via a small .js script for css and background images

ie.
https://github.com/leechy/imgsupport
https://github.com/djpogo/avif-webp-css-support

Spending a few minutes on each image on the homepage is usually a very good investment in terms of website loading speed. And when I got an argument with a customer about my job I can show him some neat tricks and explain that thereā€™s more to a website than meets the eye.

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As a Photographer I donā€™t have any softwre to write AVIF files, but then hey I still shoot sheet film as well 5x4in, 7x5in and 10x8, gets rather too expensive shooting larger. My commercial work has been digiatl for around 20 years, but hey a lwish resolution csan of a 1ox8 negative is over IGb thatā€™s B&W colour x3 :smiley:

My gut feeling is early use of WebP was because it could be viewed online and if saved most editing progams didnā€™t recognise it. Fractal compression and JPEG 2000 could far be better but thereā€™s been no uptake.

These days I save as JPEG with NO compression, itā€™s a quagmire, could I read an AVIF file ?

Ian

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We added support for Avif in 5.5.0 but it seems we havenā€™t included it in the change log.

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thanks, martin, thatā€™s great news for me. Tested, works like a charm