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(17/03/2012 03:11 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Firefox supports WebM since v4, so I would guess WebP too.  I'm doubtful about IE and Safari.

Mozilla has actually been stiffly resisting the introduction of WebP.  Even when working patches were supplied, they were rejected.

Quote:After studying quality and performance characteristics of WebP, Mozilla decided last month not to support the format. The WebP feature request in Mozilla's bug tracker was resolved with the "WONFTIX" label and a number of community-supplied patches to enable the feature in Firefox were politely rejected.

"As the WebP image format exists currently, I won't accept a patch for it. If and when that changes, I'll happily re-evaluate my decision!" wrote Mozilla developer Joe Drew in a Bugzilla comment.

Mozilla's Jeff Muizelaar offered a more detailed technical explanation about the problems with WebP in a blog post. His well-articulated critique sheds light on the problems with Google's testing methodology, lays out the weaknesses in the WebP feature set, and explains Mozilla's broader philosophical objections against indiscriminately adding new image formats to Firefox.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/...picasa.ars


(17/03/2012 03:11 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Not like anyone's gonna change though.

Well, it's definitely not going to happen quickly, but at least there will be the option and possibility for change, however slow that may be.  Right now with just Chrome and Opera, there is no option, and no possibility.

I for one will use WebP over JPG.  Even though I also disagree in some of WebP's design methodologies (see http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/541 ), it's still going to be a lot better than JPEG probably most of the time.
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packJPG 2.5 XnView Plugin - ZiNgA BuRgA - 16/03/2012, 04:51 AM
RE: packJPG 2.5 XnView Plugin - hibbyware - 16/03/2012, 06:30 AM
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RE: packJPG 2.5 XnView Plugin - Assassinator - 17/03/2012 03:15 AM
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