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webp comes in lossy and lossless flavor. unless you want to degrade the gifs you would have to pick lossless and in that case it's not a clear win over apng eve
by the8472 6y ago
webp comes in lossy and lossless flavor. unless you want to degrade the gifs you would have to pick lossless and in that case it's not a clear win over apng even if we ignore the compatibility question.
- johncolanduoni 6y agoA lossy 24-bit color webp image (which is encoded with VP8's intra-frame compression) is likely to look better than a 8-bit color palette lossless gif.
- the8472 6y agoUnless it's pixel art (lossy webp is chroma-subsampled). Another issue is that it often is a reencode from a gif, so it's strictly lossy if you don't use a lossless format for the reencode.
- jsjohnst 6y agoGP is talking about APNG not GIF. APNG has 24bit with alpha transparency.
- thayne 6y agoBut this is in the context of what to use instead of gif. The point is, for many gifs (like say a short clip from a movie, or funny video) you can get a lossy webp that looks better than a gif, but and is smaller than an APNG.