Jank-Free Image Loads
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great news: there are two on-the-horizion web platform features that are trying to make no-jank, fixed-aspect-ratio, fluid-width images a natural part of the web platform.
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great news: there are two on-the-horizion web platform features that are trying to make no-jank, fixed-aspect-ratio, fluid-width images a natural part of the web platform.
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
So if the browser manages to download 6 kB then stalls, then AVIF can produce a better result. But since the AVIF rendering is only two-pass, if the…
kliksphilip
JPEG VS AVIF - The Battle of Compression
In this super thorough study I test one single HD image and come to vast sweeping conclusions about JPEG XL and AVIF. But that's still one image comparison…
Should I please Lighthouse with modern image formats, or my visitors with progressive rendering of large images in my photography site? 🤔

Of course, this would be much easier with genaralized JPEG XL support, both modern and allowing progressive… 🤷♂️
Most mentions of the magical CSS object-fit: cover; in development tutorials should be accompanied by a warning: in most situations, it means the browser will download an image that is larger than required (at least in one direction), and optimization on the server side could be a better option.
Jon Sneyers
This consolidates JPEG XL’s position as the best image codec currently available, for both lossless and lossy compression, across the quality range…