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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by tannhaeuser on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:50AM (#18154066)
Doesn't Safari support JPEG 2000 in exchange? And Safari was the one that introduced the newer picture element for enumerating responsive image choices (though to the dismay of HTML semanticists as HTML rather than CSS) wasn't it?
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by CorpusCalcium on Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:21PM (#18156166)
Not really, Firefox and Chrome supported the picture element well before Safari did. It was part of the nascent HTML5 standard.

I believe what WebKit introduced was the analogous CSS image-set property, which likely influenced the picture's element's development (but image-set still hasn't managed to escape draft-spec territory).

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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by dbbk on Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:36PM (#18157122)
Yeah, if you want to serve the most optimal image for Safari (iOS or desktop) JPEG 2000 is the way to go.

The ideal format would be HEIF but there's not a lot of conversion support out there, Imgix doesn't support it for instance.

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