[mschuster91]

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.

[aidenn0]

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.

[not2b]

WEBP is more of a PNG replacement; better lossless image compression. And it's claimed to be about 25% smaller.

[aidenn0]

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.

[eviks]

So why are they fighting the better JXL?