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New image format for the web
kyrathaba:
Chromium Blog
Interesting. The site links to comparison images in Jpeg vs. WebP, and also offers a conversion tool for developers to convert their lossy images. Anyone fooled with this yet? The conversion tool is currently only for *nix, but a Windows version is coming soon. Source code is available.
Renegade:
I think the success/failure of it rests entirely in 2 sources:
1) Google creates BSD licensed code for developers and brings the WebP format up to par with others
2) Microsoft incorporates support into IE
It must be up to par. The best format now is PNG with transparency. Alpha is not optional anymore. Otherwise, it's only good for photo albums.
Nobody will use WebP if it doesn't work in IE.
Looks promising though. A 39% reduction is a LOT~!
app103:
I think the success/failure of it rests entirely in 2 sources:
-Renegade (October 04, 2010, 07:41 AM)
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Make that 3 sources:
3. Support in average consumer grade cameras. People take photos with their phones these days, then upload the photos directly to their blog, facebook, etc. Unless the phone's camera (or the software running on the web service they upload them to) is going to automatically convert it for them, most people likely won't bother going out of their way to figure out how, and will post whatever their camera produces by default.
zridling:
Images and photos make up about 65% of the bytes transmitted per web page today.
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Anything to speed things up is good. Google should continue to focus on this kind of thing and tell Eric Schmidt to STFU and quit freaking everyone out with every interview he does.
justice:
I think the success/failure of it rests entirely in 2 sources:
1) Google creates BSD licensed code for developers and brings the WebP format up to par with others
2) Microsoft incorporates support into IE
It must be up to par. The best format now is PNG with transparency. Alpha is not optional anymore. Otherwise, it's only good for photo albums.
Nobody will use WebP if it doesn't work in IE.
Looks promising though. A 39% reduction is a LOT~!
-Renegade (October 04, 2010, 07:41 AM)
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IT's a replacement for JPEG not PNG (ie photographs, not logos and shapes)
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