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IE and Safari do not support WebP, Edge didn't until Windows 10 1809 (November), Firefox didn't until 65 (January) and Firefox ESR and for Android still don't.
by extra88 8y ago
IE and Safari do not support WebP, Edge didn't until Windows 10 1809 (November), Firefox didn't until 65 (January) and Firefox ESR and for Android still don't.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp
- bscphil 8y agoFirefox for Android does, that's outdated (see the version number). There's a fast wasm version for Safari: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp-demo/tree/gh-pages/webp_wasm https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp-demo/tree/gh-pages/we... In addition, all modern browsers support the <picture> element, which allows them to automatically download image the best meets their needs.
- extra88 8y agoPolyfilling WebP support just for browsers that support Web Assembly but not WebP seems pretty weighty when it's very straightforward to not exclusively use WebP. The <picture> element is great but using it means not, as you wrote, "Use WebP! For everything!" Maybe you meant "Use WebP! For everything! With Fallbacks!"
- bscphil 8y ago> "Use WebP! For everything! With Fallbacks!" I can get behind that. :-) What I meant by "for everything" was to use it for both photographic images and illustrations instead of using two different formats.