An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This extension allows users to save an image in different formats – JPG, PNG, and WebP. No matter whether an image was uploaded in JPG, PNG, or WebP format on the website, you can change the file ...

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 ...

Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page’s size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.

Opera software has released a new developer build of its Opera Desktop web browser with support for Google's WebP image format. The WebP format is part of Google's self-imposed mission to make the web ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...