Great overview. On dev.to we load different formats based on the situation and browser. Cloudinary handles a lot of the heavy lifting if our code is correct, which is really nice.
Because Chrome supports WebP and it's also our most popular browser in terms of traffic, most of our image traffic is served as WebP.
The subject is pretty poorly understood so this article goes a long long way.
I work as a staff software engineer at a med tec company. We are mainly programming in C++ but my background is also a functional one (Haskell, OCaml).
In the past I did research in program analysis.
Great overview. On dev.to we load different formats based on the situation and browser. Cloudinary handles a lot of the heavy lifting if our code is correct, which is really nice.
Because Chrome supports WebP and it's also our most popular browser in terms of traffic, most of our image traffic is served as WebP.
The subject is pretty poorly understood so this article goes a long long way.
Thanks Ben for sharing this. Cloudinary is great for image management. I'm amazed at what can be done with it. Thank you for reading. :)
Do you still use gif?