Anyone using Webp?

ed welch

Just wondering if anyone has tried out this format. It's only supported by Chrome of coarse, but it compresses better than jpeg and supports transparency (unfortunately, not alpha transparancy just yet)

Pete OHanlon

Ah, yet another Google-only "web standard". When Microsoft attempt this, they get slammed; when Google do this, people laud them. Oh, it must stink to be a Softie.

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Luc Pattyn

I trust that you're a Bing addict then. :-D

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Pete OHanlon

Hardly. I prefer Chrome to IE, and Google search to Bing. I just can't stomach the "holier than thou" attitude.

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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 JPG is ancient and outdated, and WebP is theoretically better (though not state of the art), but libvpx (used to?)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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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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