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At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp. And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous beta
by mojuba 7y ago
At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp.
And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous betas of macOS and iOS and removed later. Don't remember which.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoHuh, I didn’t know this. Doing a bit of Googling, looks like it was iOS 10 / macOS Sierra. https://www.macobserver.com/news/webp-comes-ios-10-macos-sierra-betas-need-know/ https://www.macobserver.com/news/webp-comes-ios-10-macos-sie... Edit: Now I kind of want to see if I can hack in support on other OS X versions by copying files around...
- jamil7 7y agoI was also wondering about this and what exactly happened there, I wonder if there are some underlying issues either technical or political there.
- josho 7y agoOr equally possible they didn’t see meaningful real world improvements?
- jamil7 7y agoYeah sure but why implement it at all in a beta? I remember reading that years ago employees from both Mozilla and Apple looked into the format and both concluded it wasn't worth implementing. Firefox dragged it's feet with this too and eventually caved early last year, probably due to pressure from web developers looking at Google's lighthouse score telling them to use webp.
- robterrell 7y agohttps://www.cnet.com/news/apple-ios-macos-tests-googles-webp-graphics-to-speed-up-web/ https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-ios-macos-tests-googles-webp...