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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by apendleton on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:21PM (#5590491)
They're doing that anyway because they serve non-webp images to users with non-webp-supporting browsers. Anyhow, this is the image that's for display, which is resized/compressed; they store and allow you to download the original no matter what.

I'm skeptical of this solution for other reasons, though (like that it assumes users know what JPG means).

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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by apalmer on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:24PM (#5590905)
Users who don't know what JPG means are not going to be attempting to edit the images in photoshop. Although perhaps they are saving the files to their local windows machine.
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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by grecy on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:08PM (#5590804)
> They're doing that anyway because they serve non-webp images to users with non-webp-supporting browsers.

For now, yes, but I doubt that's their long-term plan here.

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