Microsoft tests a better image format for Windows 11 backgrounds

Microsoft has begun testing support for WebP images (.webp) as desktop backgrounds in Windows 11, reports Windows Latest.
ZDNet

Firefox and Edge add support for Google's WebP image format

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...
GIGAZINE

Google announces a new image format "WebP" to replace JPEG, file size is small and web display speeds up

Image format that is now used everywhere on the InternetJPEGHowever, as a new image format that Google replaces JPEG, "WebPWe announced. The file size is small, it is possible to speed up the display ...
CNET

Google speeds WebP image format, brings animation support to Chrome

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...
eWeek

Google Introduces WebP Image Format

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google has introduced a new Web image format, known as ...
Ars Technica

Mozilla rejects WebP image format, Google adds it to Picasa

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video for ...
Android Police

Animated PNG format: How does it compare to Animated WebP and GIF?

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...