Re:WebM and WebP Hand Ported to JavaScript for All Browsers
by bri3d on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:32PM
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27K is pretty big in the compressed image world - plus, you have to consider the amount of time the JavaScript requires to render WebP (which could instead have been used to transfer a few extra KB of data).
I think it's pretty hard to win this way.