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- animatedgif0
If they put as much effort behind it as they did for WebM then it's gonna be amazing.
Really think that WebM and WebP have just been 20% projects for a few Googlers who are now bored of the idea when it wasn't an instant success.
- nb0
If the main benefit is 25% - 35% reduction in file size, it's definitely not worth the switch if the format doesn't get support from all browsers. I assume Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft will all be against this.
Bandwidth and hosting is getting bigger, faster, and cheaper all the time. We don't really need this format. If it were open source, free, and cut file size by half, it would STILL be difficult to get everyone to adopt it. I just don't see this going anywhere.
Then again, it's not like the have a bunch of idiots employed over there at Google. You know?
- ukit20
Remember how Google tried to push its own video codec too. I think it will take support from more than one company to make it widely used.
- monNom0
The big thing I see is a lossy RGBA format. So you can have jpeg style compression with an alpha channel. File size is less than 50%, but still full colour (not 8bit+alpha like tinypng).
I'm all for it, if only because I've got a project right now it would be perfect for.