After 20 Years, I'm Finally on the WebP Bandwagon
I guess I'm using WebP now?
After two decades of using JPEG, PNG, and SVG, I've switched to WebP—something I never expected to say. The format's journey from a Chrome-only curiosity in 2011 to baseline support in 2020 was slow, and tools like Photoshop only added native support in 2022. Now, with better tooling in Pixelmator Pro, WebP consistently beats JPEG and PNG in file size at the same visual quality. I'm already looking forward to AVIF and JPEG XL, which may arrive sooner.
It turns out they’re pretty good?
- Gualdrapo
So as every time I read something decrying how webp is allegedly "annoying", the conclusion is that the problem was never about webp itself but the tooling and ecosystem to handle it
- edent
Google aren't pushing WebP. Google Docs / Slides still don't support it.
I appreciate Google isn't a monolith, but that lack of consistency makes it really hard to shake the impression certain tribes within it are at war with each other.
- Grimeton
Avif.
Especially for animated images. Comparing webp or avif sizes to gif is easily a factor of five to ten when animated.