Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk
by dspillett on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:44PM
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> Not for users, no. The only gain here is facebook's bandwidth costs, at the expense (and inconvenience) of its users.
If it saves a significant amount of bandwidth it could be useful to mobile users too, who might find themselves stuck somewhere with nothing but GPRS in a congested cell.
If it saves a significant amount of bandwidth it could be useful to mobile users too, who might find themselves stuck somewhere with nothing but GPRS in a congested cell.