WordPress.org announced that it will support the advanced WebP image format. WordPress version 5.8 is scheduled for release in late July 2021 and will ship with full support of the (relatively) new ...

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...

Mozilla is bringing support for Google's WebP image format to Firefox 65. The WebP image format was created by Google as a modern format designed for displaying images on the web. "WebP lossless ...

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

WebP versus JPEG. Click the image to see the full size examples on Google's WebP comparison page. Image: Google[/caption] Want your website to load faster? Slim your images. According to the ...

The problem with introducing a new protocol or file format on the Web is being the first mover. Browser support for a new technology is only half the story; Web sites also have to use the same ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

Opera software has pushed out the final version of Opera 11.10, an upgrade to the company’s flagship desktop Web browser. Opera 11.10 brings a significant speed bump to Opera’s Turbo browsing mode, ...

Last week, Google announced a new image format called WebP, which has the potential to replace JPG, the format used practically everywhere for sharing photos on the Web. On Thursday, the Pixelmator ...