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#1 temhawk

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Posted 20 December 2010 - 06:18 PM

I can not wait
any longer for
this awesome
image format!
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#2 Karl Buckland

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 05:30 AM

Thanks for this Temhawk. The WebP images look better than their JPG equivalents and are smaller which is good. However, Google hasn't provided any way to display a WebP image and fall back on another method. The whole reason that we still can't really rely on transparent PNGs (well maybe we can start to now) is that IE6 had large market share for so long and didn't support it. Until WebP is widely supported, we'll have the same problem here. Even if there was a fallback, would people really want two of every image?

From what I've read, it also appears that WebP does not currently support transparency, although Google plan to add it in a future update. So it looks like WebP is a bit too early immature now.

QUOTE(benbramz @ Aug 17 2007, 07:44 AM) Ive noticed that quite a few people are now adding quotes from the board into their signature. I think its started an new web-radiance craze.. :P

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