Comments on The official Google Code blog: Lossless and transparency encoding in WebP

"Please make a javascript implementation of t...

2011-11-22T09:49:23.275-08:00

"Please make a javascript implementation of the decoder (with output) so that this can be used on all modern browsers."

It seems that this has already been done: http://webpjs.appspot.com/

I haven't tried it, but the WebPJS site says it supports Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE 6-9.

Of course you can also just detect WebP support and serve JPEG/PNG images to older browsers if you don't like the idea of image transcoding via JS.

I'd love to see it supported in PDFs. Right no...

2011-11-20T07:52:48.037-08:00

I'd love to see it supported in PDFs. Right now, for lossless image encoding in PDFs, I use ZIP compression... yes... uggg...

get it built into paint.net, gimp, acdsee and phot...

2011-11-19T12:50:41.384-08:00

get it built into paint.net, gimp, acdsee and photoshop then we may see it take off.

This is excellent, I can't wait for widespread...

2011-11-19T09:37:59.465-08:00

This is excellent, I can't wait for widespread adoption!

would like to see Google reach out to other projec...

2011-11-18T15:57:34.669-08:00

would like to see Google reach out to other projects and developers to get WebP support in their software and products. No one will use it unless creative software can output it. I would love to see it supported in Blende.

You should consider renaming it GPEG for Google Pi...

2011-11-18T15:35:49.671-08:00

You should consider renaming it GPEG for Google Picture Expert Group, heh. The rhyme and similarity would speed adoption. Something about filename.webp bugs me. :P

is there a good way to use WeBP while at the same ...

2011-11-18T15:14:23.995-08:00

is there a good way to use WeBP while at the same time keep compatibility with older browsers that do not support it?

i.e. is there a simple way to make a page that would cause Chrome to load the WebP image while other browsers would load the jpeg? (without doing things like browsers sniffing and serving different pages to different browsers)

also, another concern is that jpeg images that have been indexed by google image could lost their ranking in the google search database is they were replaced by new files using the WeBP format. any comment on that?

I would like to see Google reach out to other proj...

2011-11-18T14:44:18.253-08:00

I would like to see Google reach out to other projects and developers to get WebP support in their software and products. No one will use it unless creative software can output it. I would love to see it supported in Blender, as PNG sequences are quite slow. Also I would love to see not just an animation version of it, but specifically a container and codec based on WebP with support for alpha channels, lossless or lossy compression, and mp3 or aac audio (or perhaps FLAC and/or ogg to keep things free). WebP looks encouraging, Motion WebP + audio in a container would be great, particularly if encoding/decoding could be hardware accelerated eventually.

what a coincidence. i received ur update as i was ...

2011-11-18T14:17:29.842-08:00

what a coincidence. i received ur update as i was struggling for the past few days to compress couple of pics for upload. its nice u updated me. thanks to google for making things easy n faster.

Please make a javascript implementation of the dec...

2011-11-18T13:53:14.985-08:00

Please make a javascript implementation of the decoder (with CANVAS output) so that this can be used on all modern browsers.

Please make a javascript implementation of the dec...

2011-11-18T13:52:26.818-08:00

Please make a javascript implementation of the decoder (with output) so that this can be used on all modern browsers.

This is a lossless format. As a developer, I can m...

2011-11-18T13:18:15.195-08:00

This is a lossless format. As a developer, I can make a second set of all my png images very easily. Nothing gets lost.

If you can get printer manufacturers, camera manuf...

2011-11-18T09:52:21.238-08:00

If you can get printer manufacturers, camera manufacturers and image editing/viewing applications to add support for webp then it could really take off. Without that I can't see this taking off.

2011-11-18T09:45:14.221-08:00

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None of this means anything without 100% browser a...

2011-11-18T09:27:51.921-08:00

None of this means anything without 100% browser adoption. It's like writing a book you never publish. Web Technology takes 5-10 years to catch on, so I hope to see some real adoption soon, otherwise this will retain status of "could have been great".

But AskMP: They ARE!!!! ;-) Nice work on the Web...

2011-11-18T07:40:42.810-08:00

But AskMP: They ARE!!!! ;-)

Nice work on the WebP, guys.

Why you don't just buy this company and their ...

2011-11-18T06:36:44.553-08:00

Why you don't just buy this company and their patents ?
http://www.jpegmini.com/main/home

They use the standard jpeg file format and they reduce the size by a factor up to x5

Vikas and Urvang, You guys need to get some pictur...

2011-11-18T06:22:18.477-08:00

Vikas and Urvang,
You guys need to get some pictures where you are at least smiling. It looks like this is a picture of when they let you outside for air and your ticked off that they want you to pose.

Appreciating the new features. Now I only need a c...

2011-11-18T03:29:39.159-08:00

Appreciating the new features. Now I only need a chrome extension that does server side conversion of jpgs, pngs and gifs to WebP, a bit like Opera Turbo.

@SyP: Thanks a ton for updating the wiki page!

2011-11-18T02:54:00.552-08:00

@SyP: Thanks a ton for updating the wiki page!

Urvang u r a Rock star

2011-11-18T02:38:00.972-08:00

Urvang u r a Rock star

Very nice, I updated the Wikipedia-article.

2011-11-18T02:37:33.710-08:00

Very nice, I updated the Wikipedia-article.