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Old 13th May 2013, 07:00   #73  |  Link
tuqueque
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I can start saying (repeating) that WebP is better than PNG in 95% of cases, ergo, is better than APNG and of course, GIF; second, in most cases WebP is better than JPEG... Is just one file format that offers better features/compression/quality than what the other three offer separately... And, oh, yes; is created, developed, maintained and promoted by a dude like Google!... Let's complain less about WebP/WebM not being supported and let's do more promoting them!

In this forums there are like 5 redundant but active threads about H265 stuff and just one about WebM... That's just sad!

Google is implementing WebP in services like Google+, Picasa, Gmail... WebP in Google Maps is not yet supported, but they're getting there... Google is already supporting WebP and WebM in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but I use Firefox and Mozilla guys a month or so ago said that they were finally considering WebP support... Google is already working in VP9 (in a daily basis with lots of commits: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=we...s/experimental) which will probably be about twice the quality of VP8... VP8 is inferior than H.264, but it's still a dang good video codec and is an open standart! (which I already use frequently)... I'm confident that VP9 will be equal or even slightly better than x264... So, Google is definitely doing its job (an awesome job, BTW) promoting them... Is now our job to give it a real try.

I've suggested the support for WebP in several programs and thanks to that, my favorite image viewer, JPEGView (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/), now supports loading and saving WebP!

So, when people like us, the users... Stop complaining and start using and promoting demonstrated new (and OPEN) standarts, those standarts will establish!
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