Google is promoting a new image format, aimed at overthrowing the venerable JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Naturally, WebP is faster, and it’s open source. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers squint at their pixels. Your ...

Google WebP engineers are encountering resistance from Google Chrome engineers about whether it's worth supporting the animated version of the image format. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

You have probably tried downloading an image from a website, expecting a typical JPEG or PNG picture, and instead received a WebP file. Those WebP image don’t ...

Web developers and graphic artists who want to try the data-saving graphics format now have two choices of open-source plug-ins for Photoshop. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG. Despite being in use ...

This time, I will convert an MP4 format movie of grilling meat to animation WebP. The movie file size is 4.59MB, the frame size is 560 x 420 pixels, the bit rate is about 1.5Mbps, and the frame rate ...

While downloading images from the internet, you may have come across one of the relatively newer image formats called WebP. It is a file format launched by Google back in 2010. What makes WebP special ...