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This will improve with time, every new technology starts like this and if it's better than the current technology, it sticks.
by skbohra123 13y ago
This will improve with time, every new technology starts like this and if it's better than the current technology, it sticks.
- eurleif 13y agoIf it's sufficiently better than the current technology to overcome the switching costs, it sticks.
- threeseed 13y agoWebP was released 3 years ago hence your entire premise is faulty. The real truth is that being the best technically rarely guarantees success in the market.
- buzzkills 13y agoIt took longer than that for png to stick.
- threeseed 13y agoYou missed my point. Technology is not the reason WebP is probably going nowhere. Apple, Microsoft and Firefox for whatever reason (politics/principle) either won't support defacto standards or have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing so (see SPDY). And without those three you are never going to get above 45%.
- emilis_info 13y agoHow can you call things unsupported by the majority of players in the market "defacto standards"?
- clarry 13y agoOn top of that, SPDY is an experimental protocol that may eventually (after enough iteration) make it into a standard (HTTP 2.0). It's not standard yet, and definitely not defacto standard.
- cpeterso 13y agoMozilla's adoption of SPDY shows that they (we) are not dogmatically refusing Chrome innovations.
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