My client just gave me a whole bunch of .heic image files, and while I know that the Astro <Picture> can handle them via sharp, what's the consensus on the best way to handle them within Astro. Does it just make more sense to convert to .avif and go from there?
#`.heic` image support
gray barn
viral orbit
Hmm I've never heard of .heic files but they seem to be some propriatary Apple format. If I was you I'd just ask them to send them over in your preferred format unless you can just use the heic files directly? I would assume if sharp can handle them, you could just use them like any other image type?
nimble rain
Hmm I've never heard of `.heic` files but they seem to be some propriatary Apple...
They're a better format for compression over plain old jpeg et al while retaining more quality. You care about this very much on your iPhone, less so I assume on a server.
heady yoke
Slight concern: although the HEIC format isn't an Apple format per se, the main form of compressing HEIC images is by using HEVC encoding. HEVC is patent-encumbered and doesn't have favorable licensing, so I don't know what image libraries support it.