WebP from Google will deliver faster internet to you. But at what cost?
WebP is something I found out by total accident when asking the simple question of:
Why does Google Chrome not support animated .PNG files?
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It turns out Google instead of including the format into the library on their browser decided instead to exclude it. Although you can simply download an animated PNG plugin for Chrome here. That’s not the point. The point is it should be natively supported which it is not. If Google finally did support animated PNG files then Google now supports APNG which now we can put an axe into animated .GIF files. A Format which is still in use since the late 1980’s! Animated GIF files are now old enough to run for president of the United States! However, Google’s attitude was as follows:
Why spend any more time on other formats like PNG and JPG when WebP will be cooler!
Note: This issue with Google Chrome as of 7/25/2017 has now been resolved but the entry still stand for archival reasons.
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