Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web
by skbohra123 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:46AM
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This will improve with time, every new technology starts like this and if it's better than the current technology, it sticks.
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WebP was released 3 years ago hence your entire premise is faulty.
The real truth is that being the best technically rarely guarantees success in the market.
It took longer than that for png to stick.
You missed my point. Technology is not the reason WebP is probably going nowhere.
Apple, Microsoft and Firefox for whatever reason (politics/principle) either won't support defacto standards or have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing so (see SPDY). And without those three you are never going to get above 45%.
Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web
by emilis_info on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:06AM
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How can you call things unsupported by the majority of players in the market "defacto standards"?
On top of that, SPDY is an experimental protocol that may eventually (after enough iteration) make it into a standard (HTTP 2.0). It's not standard yet, and definitely not defacto standard.
Mozilla's adoption of SPDY shows that they (we) are not dogmatically refusing Chrome innovations.