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Re:Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project by d0ugie on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @04:29PM (#7350080)
.. WebP as a replacement to jpegs, pngs, apngs, gifs, and maybe one day svgs and psds, to the moon baby, with or without Mozilla.

Though I'm sure they have their reasons to stay away from an across-the-board superior format. I just wish I knew what they were. Sigh.

Re:Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project by gcp on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @06:17PM (#7350697)
I just wish I knew what they were. Sigh.

That's not hard: they put out a report months ago concluding that the claimed advantages of WebP were in reality slim to nonexistent, and that it could likely be matched and even outperformed by improved JPEG encoders...which is exactly what they're building now.

Re:Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project by BrendanEich on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:26PM (#7351471)