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Webp is a Google creation with marginal benefits. Google doesn't produce things out of altruism. They've been a bad actor in enough cases for a long enough tim
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Webp is a Google creation with marginal benefits.
Google doesn't produce things out of altruism. They've been a bad actor in enough cases for a long enough time that there's no reason to trust their motivation.
Webp is not a standard. It's marginally open source but it's entirely Google driven for Google purposes.
Jpeg is a standard. Contributing to the development of existing standards is what participation in the open web looks like.
Webp is like AMP. It's unnecessary. It's a waste of time and energy. It's not clear what Google's motives are for using or advocating for webp.
- karmakaze 5y agoEverything that is a standard was once an idea and not a standard. I can't speak for motivations, but I do like the idea of an image format that handles our current common use cases: JPEG, PNG, GIF. As it is now everyone uses JPEG for too many things otherwise GIF for memes. Gif is a very inefficient video format. There was once TIFF but that was too unwieldy to be of practical use being a 'kitchen sink' design rather than based on usage needs. My perspective is very simple. Google wants an efficient storage and transmission format as they do lots of both. This is not contrary to the needs of consumers. Here's an issue thread[0] on w3c/epub-specs that has some of the finer points. [0] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1344 https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1344