Animated WebP images, however, are essentially an alternative to animated GIFs. Unlike this rather old format, animated WebP images use true alpha channels and each frame can be lossy or lossless ...

Without getting into too many technicalities, WebP incorporates a new encoding algorithm, making the image format superior to PNG, which has been around since 1997, and the even older JPEG image ...

Google used an image compressor based on its VP8 codec to beat the performance that JPEG delivers. The company open-sourced the VP8 codec at its Google I/O developer conference in May 2010.

Webp is a popular image format used by many sites on the Internet – but also by apps and some other software that use web views – and the vulnerability can be used, among other things, to run ...

The image format is supported by more than a dozen graphic design tools along with productivity applications such as LibreOffice. The WebP security flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-4863.

Apple similarly added WebP support in iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra, but later replaced it with HEIF, an image format based on the HEVC video compression standard (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2).

Google long has touted file-size savings for WebP, a benefit that dovetails with its Chrome team's effort to make the web faster. But it's not easy to win over all browser makers.

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It’s called WebP, and it’s based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative ...

WebP will work in versions of Firefox based on its Gecko browser engine, Firefox for personal computers and Android but not for iOS . Mozilla plans to add support in the first half of 2019.

Google has developed a new web image format known as WebP to deal with the issue of latency when loading image-heavy web pages, particularly on mobile devices.The announcement came via the ...