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by aidenn0 1008 days ago
> 3. Why haven't I heard of WebP before? Am I living under a rock, or is this a mobile-first technology?

It's been supported in desktop chrome for a long while. There's dozens of JPEG replacements that have come and gone, and WebP is primarily notable for having Google's clout behind it. When Google bought Duck/On2 they got a lot of video compression technology, some of which went into WebP.
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mschuster91 1008 days ago
At the scale of Youtube and Google Image Search, saving even 1% of data transfer is worth a lot of money and yak-shaving efforts.
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aidenn0 1008 days ago
Oh, it's definitely something that makes/made sense for them to do; just pointing out that not knowing one of many JPEG replacements doesn't mean you live under a rock.
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not2b 1008 days ago
WEBP is more of a PNG replacement; better lossless image compression. And it's claimed to be about 25% smaller.
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aidenn0 1007 days ago
s/JPEG/PNG/ and my comment still works. In any event it's clearly designed for both, since the lossy and lossless modes are relatively independent of each other.
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eviks 1007 days ago
So why are they fighting the better JXL?
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