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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by threeseed on Sunday March 23, 2014 @05:17AM (#7452675)
WebP IS lossy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

And as you can see from the page there are artefacts that humans can perceive.

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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by jkn on Sunday March 23, 2014 @05:53AM (#7452744)
Both the original article and the Wikipedia page state that WebP support lossy and lossless compression. I guess using lossless WebP would not make sense for JPEG files as the result would probably be bigger than the original JPEG, but it might work well with PNG.
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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by evilduck on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:23AM (#7453648)
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_...
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