Comment by ftufek

While it's great at compressing the image, it's PITA to work with until browsers support it. What's strange to me is that it's the format Apple uses by default on iOS, but even their own browser doesn't support it (!?). So when a user uploads a picture from an iPhone, you either have to load up an extra JS library (~1MB size last I included one in a web app) to process it or upload it to a remote server for processing.