Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk
by cbhl on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:37PM
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> Because they broke the web for their users.
If they're right-clicking the image to download the photo, it's already broken -- Facebook serves a heavily re-compressed JPEG by default. You need to use the menu option to download the original.
I wouldn't hire the graphic designer quoted in the article; they should be able to see the compression artifacts that Facebook leaves in the images they upload, and be aware that they should be using flickr or dropbox or another photo storage service instead.
If they're right-clicking the image to download the photo, it's already broken -- Facebook serves a heavily re-compressed JPEG by default. You need to use the menu option to download the original.
I wouldn't hire the graphic designer quoted in the article; they should be able to see the compression artifacts that Facebook leaves in the images they upload, and be aware that they should be using flickr or dropbox or another photo storage service instead.