Anyone using Webp?

[hairy_hats]

ed welch wrote:

(unfortunately, not alpha transparancy just yet)

"WebP supports losseless transparency (also known as alpha channel)"[^]

[ed welch]

A lot of standards start off with one company introducing it and, if it's a good idea, everyone else adopting it (that's how ajax came about). You can be waiting for a long time for a standands commitee to approve something

[ed welch]

Not implemented yet. But in future versions of chome (hopefully)

[Nagy Vilmos]

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

I just can't stomach the "holier than thou" attitude.

You missed the opportunity to add a '--- posted from my iPad ---' sig. :-D

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[Lost User]

Only when it was new. Does their encoder still suck? JPG is ancient and outdated, and WebP is theoretically better (though not state of the art), but libvpx (used to?) optimize for PSNR which is an almost useless quality metric (it loves blur - humans don't).

[ed welch]

The image quality looks fine to me

[Lost User]

Just "it'll do" or better than JPG at the same filesize?

[Pete OHanlon]

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[ed welch]

It seems to compress better than jpeg, but that's not why I would use it. jpeg doesn't have transparency. That is the whole point of using it from my point of view

[Lost User]

You might as well use PNG then, right? It'll be bigger, but every browser supports it (except ancient IE's of course)

[Nagy Vilmos]

:-D

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Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

[ed welch]

PNG is 5 times bigger. Totatally unaccepatable if you have big images.

[Lost User]

So you have jpg: no transparency. png: too big. webp: not supported. So.. GIF? :laugh:

[Luc Pattyn]

Isn't that related to the Nexus-that-may-go-all-silent-anytime? :)

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[Luc Pattyn]

I knew that. And you knew I did. And I knew you'd say that anyway. It is the product that matters, much more so than the manufacturer. :)

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[Fabio Franco]

*Hack spit* [2]

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[Chrisgo]

Did you use "coarse" because it rubs you the wrong way?

[Erling Limm]

How about JPEG XR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR[^] I'm curious to how it compares to WebP with compression and quality...

[DerekT P]

There is no Ajax standard, because there is no Ajax product. Ajax is a concept, (one which I was using in earnest about two years before anyone coined the "AJAX" acronym). Unfortunately there are several competing frameworks that implement Ajax concepts in different ways, and the sad fact is that too often developers forget what it is that they're actually doing. In most Ajax situations it is FAR more efficient to write 5 lines of cross-browser code and implement a "custom" solution than to waste resources downloading and executing overly complex frameworks. Rant over. Derek TP

[Lost User]

I don't know, never used it. It would depend on the encoder anyway.