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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by threeseed on Sunday March 23, 2014 @09:03AM (#7453163)
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%.

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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by emilis_info on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:06AM (#7453586)
How can you call things unsupported by the majority of players in the market "defacto standards"?
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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by clarry on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:33AM (#7453674)
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.
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Re:WebP – A new image format for the Web by cpeterso on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:40PM (#7453950)
Mozilla's adoption of SPDY shows that they (we) are not dogmatically refusing Chrome innovations.
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