(Phys.org)—In 2011, news circulated over Google’s enhancements to WebP, the image format set to outdistance JPEG and, with more features in a newer version, to take on Portable Network Graphics, another graphics format. The promotional point has been that WebP can create smaller, better-looking images that can help make the web faster. Now, a Thursday posting on The Chromium Blog shows how Google is actively promoting WebP, hoping that developers and other allies will see its edge. Google announced that it started using WebP in its Chrome Web Store, with impressive results. “The Chrome Web Store uses many large promotional images and tiles on its home page, making it a very heavyweight page,” wrote Stephen Konig, Product Manager, in the blog, “Using WebP to Improve Speed.” …read more
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