{"id":330,"date":"2011-05-25T04:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-05-25T04:05:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:05:03","slug":"google-makes-new-image-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/google-makes-new-image-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Google makes new image format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But fails to support Alpha channels (for true transparency)!<\/p>\n<p>Firefox maker rejects the format, and will not support it until changes are made.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WebP&#8217;s lack of basic feature parity with JPEG in areas like metadata  handling and ICC color profiles is identified by Muizelaar as another  major problem with Google&#8217;s format. It also doesn&#8217;t add any important  features that JPEG lacks, such as support for an alpha channel. He goes  as far as using the phrase &#8220;half-baked&#8221; to describe the deficient WebP  feature set.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting a new image format in Web browsers is a big decision. Once a  format becomes a part of the Web, it will have to be supported in  perpetuity\u2014adding overhead to the browser\u2014even if it largely fizzles and  only gains a small niche following. The chances of WebP attracting  widespread use at this stage are very limited, so it seems prudent to  avoid shoveling it into the browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a title=\"google image format\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2011\/05\/mozilla-rejects-webp-image-format-google-adds-it-to-picasa.ars\" target=\"_blank\">arstechnica.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/search\/label\/webp\">post<\/a> published on Google&#8217;s official Chromium blog last week highlights a  number of quality improvements in the implementation and discusses the  growing number of third-party adopters. Most significantly, Google is  adding WebP support to its own Web applications\u2014including Picasa Web  Albums and GMail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But fails to support Alpha channels (for true transparency)! Firefox maker rejects the format, and will not support it until changes are made. WebP&#8217;s lack of basic feature parity with JPEG in areas like metadata handling and ICC color profiles is identified by Muizelaar as another major problem with Google&#8217;s format. It also doesn&#8217;t add &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/google-makes-new-image-format\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google makes new image format&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-latest-news","category-programming","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-5k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}