Photographers and webmasters: get ready to say goodbye to png, jpeg and gif?
Google officially introduces the webp image format.
▶ Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP.....
▶ Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP.....
https://docs.google.com/presentation...t#slide=id.p19
Early days but bandwidth savings = faster web pages. Its has both lossy and loss-less capability (MUCH better than JPEG).
It is open licensed so no IP issues and is a great step forward.