Google releases new image file format
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 27 May 2011 at 8:00am
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Google has just released a new image file format called WebP.
Photo Credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_breathing_2_Luc_Viatour.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0
Currently only supported in the Google Chrome and Opera browsers WebP claims that:
In a large scale study of 900,000 web images, WebP images were 39.8% smaller than jpeg images of similar quality.
Though not everybody, including Mozilla who make Firefox, agree with Google's claim and have rejected support for now.
So yet another file format that may or may not require support...
Also, knowing that most of you do not use Google Chrome or Opera I opted to embed a JPG and not the WebP as you'd not see that it was there!
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