Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format

New submitter more writes with news that Google has added to its WebP image format the ability to losslessly compress images, and to do so with a substantial reduction in file size compared to the PNG format. Quoting: "Our main focus for lossless mode has been in compression density and simplicity in decoding. On average, we get a 45% reduction in size when starting with PNGs found on the web, and a 28% reduction in size compared to PNGs that are re-compressed with pngcrush and pngout. Smaller images on the page mean faster page loads."

Re:Is google's image format ICC capable?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you played WoW you would know. ICC is Ice Crown Citadel, home of the Lich King formerly known as Prince Arthas. What an outdated dungeon in an MMO has to do with Chrome displaying a new image format I'm unsure of.

Re:NIH

[Ichijo]

Recycling a name for a new incompatible format is a terrible idea. If I have a png image and software that supports pngs, I should be able to read that image, period.

An that goes double for .avi files!

Animation?

[Comboman]

Lossless compression and transparency are nice, but unless it allows for looping animated pictures of cats, I'm sticking with GIF.

Re:NIH

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would he? The standards body that approved it didn't.