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Google’s JPEG Alternative WebP Gets Smarter, Takes on PNG
Google’s JPEG Alternative WebP Gets Smarter, Takes on PNG Last year , Google introduced a new image format for the web called WebP . WebP is meant to be a modern alternative to the popular but patent-encumbered JPEG standard.
Google’s WebP Image Format Takes On JPEGs With Sharper Pictures
Google is on a mission to make the Web faster. One thing that slows down pageload times are fat image files. Even JPEG and PNG files can get pretty big. So Google is developing a new image format called WebP (which is a sister format to its WebM project for videos). The key to making image files on the Web smaller without losing sharpness is better compression of the original file.Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web | Deep Tech
It turns out there was more to Google's WebM technology than just a plan to revolutionize Web-based video. The company also wants to revolutionize still images on the Web with a new format called WebP. Google plans to announce the new WebP graphics format today along with its research that indicates its use could cut image file sizes by 40 percent compared to today's dominant JPEG file format. That translates to faster file transfers and lower network burden if Google can convince people to adopt WebP. This image has been encoded with WebP.
WebP, a new image format for the Web
As part of Google’s initiative to make the web faster, over the past few months we have released a number of tools to help site owners speed up their websites. We launched the Page Speed Firefox extension to evaluate the performance of web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them, we introduced the Speed Tracer Chrome extension to help identify and fix performance problems in web applications, and we released a set of closure tools to help build rich web applications with fully optimized JavaScript code. While these tools have been incredibly successful in helping developers optimize their sites, as we’ve evaluated our progress, we continue to notice a single component of web pages is consistently responsible for the majority of the latency on pages across the web: images. Most of the common image formats on the web today were established over a decade ago and are based on technology from around that time.
<img src="http://www.webmonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/operaicon.jpg" /> Opera software has released a new developer build of its Opera Desktop web browser with support for Google’s WebP image format. The WebP format is part of Google’s self-imposed mission to make the web faster, and promises smaller images with no visible loss of quality. Currently Google Chrome is the only web browser that supports the WebP format.
Opera 11 Preview Shows Off WebP Image Format
WebP (pronounced "weppy" ) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] is an image format that employs both lossy [ 7 ] and lossless compression. It is developed by Google , based on technology acquired with the purchase of On2 Technologies . [ 8 ] As a derivative of the video format VP8 , it is a sister project to the multimedia container format WebM . [ 9 ] WebP related software is released under a BSD license .
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Google open sources JPEG assassin
Google has open sourced a new "lossy" image format known as WebP — pronounced "weppy" — claiming it can cut the size of current web images by almost 40 per cent. CNet revealed the format with a story late this morning, and Google soon followed with a blog post describing the technology, which has been released as a developer preview . WebP is derived from VP8, the video codec Google acquired with its purchase of On2 Technologies earlier this year and promptly open sourced as part of the new WebM format. It's no secret that Google is on a mission to make the web faster — in any way it can .
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