Addressing early criticisms, Google finalizes how its image file format will handle metadata and color profiles. Also new: faster encoding and animation support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Microsoft has begun testing support for WebP images (.webp) as desktop backgrounds in Windows 11, reports Windows Latest.

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG. Despite being in use ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google has introduced a new Web image format, known as ...

Google is rolling out its WebP image format across its wide range of web sites including Google Play and YouTube. This unified image format offers both (animated) lossless and lossy encoding and thus ...

Doing something similar to what Microsoft did with the Office pack, Google has recently released a developer’s preview of a new and lighter image format called WebP. It’s capable of decreasing an ...

Chrome, Firefox and Edge are saving images in the WebP format, and that is not ideal for many users. They would prefer if this were done in other formats such as JPG or PNG, so what to do? Well, we ...