#html5

Opened ✨ AVIF conversion with WEBP fallback Active

Opened 🌱 Re-evaluate opera mini support Active

So Opera Mini also doesn't support picture or sizes which means I think core's responsive image support already doesn't work with it, which would mean ✨ Add fallback format support to responsive images Needs work also wouldn't work with it.

But also Opera Mini usage is dropping:

It doesn't show up on the global statcounter charts, so I checked Nigeria which came up via a google search as having some opera mini usage.

Opera Mini 4.4 usage is 2.76% in Nigeria in 2024-2025: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share/all/nigeria/#mon...

This is down from 3.49% for Opera Mini 4.4 and 1.49% for Opera Mini 7.4 in 2022-2023 https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share/all/nigeria/#mon...

So that's usage about halved in two years.

Given that, I think we could at least open an issue to discuss dropping support for Opera Mini in Drupal 12, and do all the steps except making it the default image style action in the standard profile in Drupal 11.

That sounds like a good idea. Actually I noticed Opera Mini is listed in our supported browsers and that doesn't support avif.

Oh interesting I didn't realise browser support was so far ahead of PHP support.

I think the next thing to figure out would be how to add avif conversion to image styles by default, but only when it's available on the server.

Do we need a new conversion that does avif if available, but falls back to webp if it's not? We could then update install profiles (and Drupal CMS) to use that?

@catch I think all supported browsers are covered. https://caniuse.com/avif

It's just older Safari and IE that aren't. Pretty sure even Firefox ESR is good as that is at version 115.

I think avif needs ✨ Add fallback format support to responsive images Needs work unless it's already supported by all of Drupal's supported browsers.

Feedback was addressed or responded to.

would be great to start adoption of AVIF as it saving disk and bandwidth

left some comments on the MR.