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thrillgore | karma 688 | avg karma 0.89 · 2022-12-10 09:49:35

It competes with WebP?

arglebargle123 | karma 261 | avg karma 3.07 · 2022-12-10 10:58:10

This seems vaguely familiar, I wonder where I've seen another dominant browser vendor engage in anticompetitive behaviour before?

pornel | karma 20915 | avg karma 5.07 · 2022-12-10 13:16:53

Google has added AVIF.

In both cases the reason was that they've already invested in the video codec powering them, and the 1-frame-video-as-image format was almost free to add.

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jonsneyers | karma 792 | avg karma 3.6 · 2022-12-10 16:50:15

This "two for one" reasoning does have some downsides though. Here I listed ten of them:

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1596965036131426304?s=...

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