Been meaning to ask for awhile; especially relevant with the most recent Pawb outage apparently being due to lack of storage space.

A post from 6 months ago claims that Lemmy as a whole still doesn’t support AVIF or JXL uploads; is that also true of Pawb?

  • l_b_iEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Big caveat to start, I’m not an application programmer. I don’t know how the web browser communicates with the operating system for the open dialog. Its possible those types are supported, or its possible the browser just tells windows, Open up a file selector and valid file types are images and videos. What those file types are is left up to the operating system.

    For a quick search, I’m not sure either firefox or chrome support jxl.

    • Darren the FoxcoonOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      AVIF has >90% compat., especially for most-recent versions of browsers. JXL is waaay less supported, but can be enabled with config switches in both FF & Chrome (and it just works by default in Safari).

      Again, inclusion of software-specific image formats like .AI and .XCF implies someone added those arbitrarily in Pawb/Lemmy code. Hoping that @Crashdoom et al. can chime in – if they’re not busy, obviously; AVIF compat. is a minor nitpick compared to the recent backend & downtime issues