The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...

Addressing early criticisms, Google finalizes how its image file format will handle metadata and color profiles. Also new: faster encoding and animation support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

It's a major endorsement for the file format, but some social-network members are upset to have lost their flexible, sharable JPEGs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video for ...

The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG. Despite being in use ...

The image accompanying this post is encoded with JPEG compression, a standard which, while it has been improved somewhat, has been more or less in its present form for almost two decades now. Over ...

WebP versus JPEG. Click the image to see the full size examples on Google's WebP comparison page. Image: Google[/caption] Want your website to load faster? Slim your images. According to the ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...