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WEBP support has been added to the next version of Safari (14).

by barkerja 6y ago

Eric_WVGG 6y ago
!!!!
ksec 6y ago
Yes, and I submitted it on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614193
reaperducer 6y ago
WEBP support has been added to the next version of Safari (14). Good to hear. But that still means it'll still be 1½ years before enough users in the wild are on iOS 14 to make the change without breaking the sites for a large number of people. At least, from what I read, iOS upgrade adoption is very quick compared with other platforms. WebP is something to look forward to on my company's internal projects, but externally we still have to support IE11, as it's still very widespread in the medical field, and I haven't seen the user numbers budge on that.
- thomasfortes 6y ago
  IE11 supports the figure element, so it is possible to use webp and have a fallback to the png or jpeg, but since I already use figure for multiple image sizes I will support webp with fallbacks for a while...
- asciident 6y ago
  Safari users seem to update very quickly (based on stats about iOS and MacOS update timelines). I've already got some desktop-oriented websites that are WebP only, and once Safari supports WebP on iOS, I'll finish transitioning them all. The space savings is quite nice for my bandwidth bills (my websites don't have video, so I estimate saving about 20% in bandwidth costs, or approximately $120/month across all of them).
  - 00deadbeef 6y ago
    I wouldn’t be able to view any of your sites as I’ve disabled webp in my browser. It always looks blurry to me and if I save an image I can only view it again in a browser.
    - asciident 6y ago
      Most of the images are converted losslessly. So are pixel-for-pixel identical. Some are lossy but only with conversion settings that make them essentially identical. So far no one has ever been able to tell.

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WEBP support has been added to the next version of Safari (14).

by barkerja 6y ago

WEBP support has been added to the next version of Safari (14).

Eric_WVGG 6y ago
!!!!
ksec 6y ago
Yes, and I submitted it on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614193
reaperducer 6y ago
WEBP support has been added to the next version of Safari (14). Good to hear. But that still means it'll still be 1½ years before enough users in the wild are on iOS 14 to make the change without breaking the sites for a large number of people. At least, from what I read, iOS upgrade adoption is very quick compared with other platforms. WebP is something to look forward to on my company's internal projects, but externally we still have to support IE11, as it's still very widespread in the medical field, and I haven't seen the user numbers budge on that.
- thomasfortes 6y ago
  IE11 supports the figure element, so it is possible to use webp and have a fallback to the png or jpeg, but since I already use figure for multiple image sizes I will support webp with fallbacks for a while...
- asciident 6y ago
  Safari users seem to update very quickly (based on stats about iOS and MacOS update timelines). I've already got some desktop-oriented websites that are WebP only, and once Safari supports WebP on iOS, I'll finish transitioning them all. The space savings is quite nice for my bandwidth bills (my websites don't have video, so I estimate saving about 20% in bandwidth costs, or approximately $120/month across all of them).
  - 00deadbeef 6y ago
    I wouldn’t be able to view any of your sites as I’ve disabled webp in my browser. It always looks blurry to me and if I save an image I can only view it again in a browser.
    - asciident 6y ago
      Most of the images are converted losslessly. So are pixel-for-pixel identical. Some are lossy but only with conversion settings that make them essentially identical. So far no one has ever been able to tell.