G’day all - confirming my own testing, there is now .avif or .jxl support in RW - is this correct?
I ask because the new Beta of Safari joins the list of (almost all) browsers that now provide full HDR display support.
HDR is also supported on all phones from the last 2-3 years and is something we all need to be looking at going forwards in web development. It offers a way of making images look dramatically better than existing standards, albeit with a small learning curve.
I would also ask @joeworkman, @Jannis and @habitualshaker + other developers to look at providing support for .avif, .jxl and most importantly the gain maps within the files going forwards. Almost more importantly though @isaiah 's StacksPro will absolutely need to support these formats. I have been trying (unsuccessfully to date) to add .avif and .jxl images to my own site, but nothing is showing up.
For right now, if you want these formats, you will have to warehouse them. I agree that the app itself should support them with drag and drop though. It’s a fair request.
Total CMS 3 does support webp and avif already. I will admit that I had not head of jpegxl before your post. It’s currently only supported in Safari though. From what I read avif is a superior format.
Thanks for coming back Joe. AVIF does seem to be the way to go and it is more used than .jxl I am pleased to hear that TCMS3 supports both as I have another site to build shortly,
As an update, I have a tool (WebSharpPro plugin for PS) that outputs standard JPEG files with embedded gain maps, allowing them to display HDR images in supporting browsers (pretty much all of them once the next MacOS is released).
The problem is that even warehousing these jpg files, something is stopping the images displaying as HDR in supported browsers (lots of testing going on here, as the final result is definitely worth the effort).