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> 3. Why haven't I heard of WebP before? Am I living under a rock, or is this a mobile-first technology? It's been supported in desktop chrome for a long while

> 3. Why haven't I heard of WebP before? Am I living under a rock, or is this a mobile-first technology? It's been supported in desktop chrome for a long while. There's dozens of JPEG replacements that have come and gone, and WebP is primarily notable for having Google's clout behind it. When Google bought Duck/On2 they got a lot of video compression technology, some of which went into WebP.

mschuster91 3y ago
At the scale of Youtube and Google Image Search, saving even 1% of data transfer is worth a lot of money and yak-shaving efforts.
- aidenn0 3y ago
  Oh, it's definitely something that makes/made sense for them to do; just pointing out that not knowing one of many JPEG replacements doesn't mean you live under a rock.
  - not2b 3y ago
    WEBP is more of a PNG replacement; better lossless image compression. And it's claimed to be about 25% smaller.
    - aidenn0 3y ago
      s/JPEG/PNG/ and my comment still works. In any event it's clearly designed for both, since the lossy and lossless modes are relatively independent of each other.
- eviks 3y ago
  So why are they fighting the better JXL?