Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp?

Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by fhoffa on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @07:24AM (#13022070)

That's an old, closed reddit post.

They have been actually actively implementing .webp support since August:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by Tarq0n on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @07:52AM (#13022251)

It's more about Google and Mozilla's differing approach to web standards, not the question posted in the title itself.

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by markdog12 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:24AM (#13022442)

Great to see they're finally getting this in, since it results in real-world download reduction and quality improvement for users. Depends on content of course, but it's especially great for certain game content, icons, etc. I was never convinced their arguments against it outweighed the benefit of adding it, and was greatly disappointed when they opposed it. Hopefully Safari are still adding it. (Edit, seems Safari may not add it due to lack of 10-bit color support)

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by gcp on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:39AM (#13022541)

since it results in real-world download reduction and quality improvement for users

This is AFAIK really only true for images that can be lossy but which have an alpha channel, so a very specific use case.

The whole point of mozjpeg was to show that an improved JPEG encoder could achieve parity with WebP for all other use cases.

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by markdog12 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:53AM (#13023418)

webp can do lossless with alpha channel, and the results (quality, size) are great. It also improves on jpeg, so it's actually a very general use case.

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by gcp on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:57AM (#13023456)

webp can do lossless with alpha channel

So can PNG. WebP doesn't add anything new here.

It also improves on jpeg

Debunked in the post you're replying to. The difference disappears when the JPEG encoder is updated (in a backwards compatible manner!) with modern encoding techniques the WebP encoder also uses, instead of ones dating back to 1998...

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Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp? by markdog12 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:25AM (#13023672)

So can PNG. WebP doesn't add anything new here.

Webp compresses to much smaller file sizes than PNG in lossless mode.

Debunked in the post you're replying to

Sorry, which post?

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