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    News - Google displays WebP

    Image format promises smaller files than JPEG while maintaining quality.
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    Re: News - Google displays WebP

    Hm seems interesting, JPEG is already an extremely small size but I guess even smaller with the same quality is always better. I wonder if support for this will manage to make it into Firefox 4.1 (considering Beta 7 of FX 4 is the feature freeze there's not much hope of it before then) and IE9, that will probably be fairly critical in ensuring it's success or failure.

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    Re: News - Google displays WebP

    I would've thought improving lossless compression would be a higher priority - if that compression can approach the jpeg file size, it should begin to supercede it.
    Smaller file sizes for same quality is always a bonus though.

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    Re: News - Google displays WebP

    am i missing something:

    Image 1 = 42595 bytes
    Image 2 = 566192 bytes


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    Re: News - Google displays WebP

    Quote Originally Posted by FoxdieUK View Post
    am i missing something:

    Image 1 = 42595 bytes
    Image 2 = 566192 bytes

    You missed this:
    (with a PNG container for compatibility)
    I'm guessing it's a lossless PNG of the WebP compressed image.

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