AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

• interop

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Microsoft Edge does support AV1, but weirdly only through a Microsoft Store extension [1], even though Chrome has support built-in. This actually really sucks because in practice hardly any normal consumers would bother to install a strangely named extension, and so web developers have to assume it's largely unsupported in Edge. Safari ties support to a hardware decoder, which I suppose is understandable to avoid accidental battery drain from using a software codec, and means eventually in some year's time support can generally be relied upon when enough new hardware is in use. But that won't happen with Edge as things stand!

I think it's high time the web had a single audio and video codec choice that was widely supported, which is why I've proposed support for AV1 and Opus for the Interop 2024 effort [2] [3].

[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/av1-video-extension/9MVZQV...

[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/485

[3] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/484

• caniuse

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Most of those that were discussed have been implemented. The new list is here [1].

What you see is that they implement different features with Google obviously wanting the browser to be a full blown OS. So they added things like MIDI support and web pages being able to access the battery.

The problem with many of those features is that they have been shown by researchers to either (a) be insecure or (b) allow web pages to uniquely fingerprint your device. This is obviously an anathema to everything Apple believes in.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+121,edge+118,safari+17.2...

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