Google Makes WebP in Effort to Make JPEG Extinct

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]nesto1000[/nom]

Get rid of the adverts and bloated flash crap and pages will load 1000% faster.

It's called Adblock plus... use it...As for googles images, I'm all down for it. another image type won't hurt...[/citation]
Ad blocking stops you from seeing them. It cannot stop them from being transmitted. Check your facts before flaming or you look the part.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Yeah, at the risk of repeating myself, seems as if this adds weight to it being less for the end user benefit.[/citation]
The end user also benefits from this because the speed that pages load on our computers isn't just dependent on our internet connection speed. There are tons of other factors, including the website available bitrate. So reducing sizes of image will help free up some traffic from www and can make it falter.

 

[maestintaolius]

So... this will mean faster and better internet pr0n? Well, what are we waitin' fer, get convertin'!

 

[Guest]

Sounds great. PNG quality, with less file size than JPEG. I look forward to it being spread across the entire web.

 

[iamtheking123]

By the time this becomes a standard (ie my grandma can open it): dial-up will be dead and we'll have 5G cell phone data plans so it won't matter that a file is 2 MB in WebP vs 4 MB in JPEG.

 

[iamtheking123]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]Ad blocking stops you from seeing them. It cannot stop them from being transmitted. Check your facts before flaming or you look the part.[/citation]

I feel like feeding the troll. What ad blocking does depends on the implementation. ABP is a FF addon and as a result can only affect what is shown to you, not what is transmitted (as you said). HOWEVER my firewall also has ad blocking, and it checks connection addresses and blocks any that are part of the black list.

 

[tburns1]

Maybe Google can offer a service similar to how they cache web pages? Click on thier link and the page comes up, but all images are converted by thier server first before sending them to the end user?

 

[edilee]

And why is Google messing with this? JPEG works so why spend all the $$ and time to convert every picture on the internet to another format?

 

[peanutsrevenge]

SOOo many ignorant, selfish people here!
It's just YOUR connection speed that matters, or the servers in the 1st world countries.

There are many others with high cost, low speed connections and download/upload caps around the world who'll appreciate the reduction of just a few Kb per day!

Now we just need a troll filter to be implimented into HTML.

 

[randomizer]

I get 300 k/s over my mobile phone. 15 years from now, I'm not sure how this is going to be an issue.

Most people in Iran wouldn't get 300kB/s on $500/month DSL.

 

[eddieroolz]

Great, another "standard". I'm perfectly okay with my JPEGs, thanks.