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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by vladdanilov on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:30AM (#18154590)
WebP lossy and WebP lossless often get mixed up. They are substantially different. While the former is mostly just outdated VP8 4:2:0, it is fast and more pleasing to the eye than JPEG at low quality and more practical there, given it has transparency. The latter is a pretty good option for ARGB images offering 25% improvement over PNG [1], and 20-40% on top of that with near-lossless compression.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_...

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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by BurningCycles on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:09AM (#18154713)
Not only that, but it's also MUCH faster than PNG in both decoding and encoding. I use it for all images I store as lossless.
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