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Re:Bringing Wide Color to Instagram by nrjdhsbsid on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:57PM (#13359709)
Instead of fixing the horrible JPEG encoding can you please add support for webp? It's quite a bit smaller and well supported with polyfills since it's just a single vp8 frame
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Re:Bringing Wide Color to Instagram by tossedaway334 on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:57PM (#13360653)
polyfills in general are a really awful user experience.

They are typically pushed by people who use the latest chrome, so they have an excuse not to care about other browsers.

Their preformance, and usability is almost invariably terrible.

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Re:Bringing Wide Color to Instagram by dbbk on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:14PM (#13369062)
You don't need a polyfill to deploy Webp. Chrome automatically sends webp in the Accept headers for images, so on the CDN level you could implement some logic to seamlessly swap in Webp images for the browsers that support it. Imgix does this for instance.
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