History of WebP

Last update Aug. 18^th 2024 11:08:20 AM

Creation date Apr. 11^th 2011 11:49:06 PM

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  Seralo on Aug. 18^th 2024 11:07:20 AMReport

  HDR

  no

  Layers support

  no

  CMYK support (for print)

  no

  Wikipedia

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

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  _wb_ on Oct. 3^rd 2021 4:06:49 PMReport

  Year

  2010 (lossy) 2011 (lossless/alpha/animation)

  Vector graphics

  no

  Raster image

  yes

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  _wb_ on Oct. 3^rd 2021 10:53:07 AMReport

  Lossless

  yes Lossless and lossy

  Animation support

  yes

  HDR

  no

  Transparency support

  yes

  Commonly used for

  Images on the web

  Cons

  Limited to 8-bit. Lossy forces 4:2:0 tv-range YCbCr.

  Maximum bit depth

  8-bit

  CMYK support (for print)

  no

  Maximum number of channels

  4 (RGBA)

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  Alexis on Nov. 24^th 2020 4:31:30 PMReport

  Firefox

  yes

  Safari

  - Partial support

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  Alexis on Sep. 21^st 2020 9:42:55 PMReport

  Microsoft Edge

  yes

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  Seralive on Apr. 11^th 2011 11:49:06 PMReport

  Mode

  70

  Name

  WebP

  Viewer

  public

  Editor

  public

  Category

  pratical

  Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

  Lossless

  no

  Short name

  WebP

  Animation support

  no

  Developed by

  Google

  Google Chrome

  yes

  Internet Explorer

  no

  Firefox

  no

  Opera

  yes

  Safari

  no

  File extensions

  .webp

  Description

  WebP is an image file format developed by Google, and supposed to be a new open standard for lossily compressed true color graphics. It's a direct competitor to JPEG.

  Pros

  Small file size (Smaller than JPEG with comparable image quality)

  Transparency support

  no

  Cons

  Lossy compression

  Layers support

  no