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CompressionStream

Web streams interface that compresses a byte stream in the browser using gzip, zlib deflate or raw deflate.

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  • CompressionStream API

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canvas.toBlob() hands back a PNG when you ask it to encode AVIF

Browsers decode eight image formats and encode three. A dev.to post documents what happens when you ask the canvas API for one of the other five: the success callback fires, and the blob it carries is a PNG.

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