WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 26% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel), animation, color profiles and metadata (XMP / EXIF). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet-based technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google.
The new version adds:
- animation support;
- metadata support (XMP / EXIF);
- support for color profiles;
- accelerated encoding mode with loss of quality when using methods 3 – 6 (option-m);
- added various assembler optimizations for ARM-processors supporting NEON;
- The default filters are now used options ‘-strong-f 60′;
- gif2webp added utility for converting Gif in WebP;
- in encoder cwebp added option ‘-metadata’ to save the meta-information, and color profiles.
In addition, Mozilla has finally decided to add support for WebP format to the browser Firefox (in Chrome and Opera support was added earlier). Read mackeeper reviews to know about your software and PC security. Recall that earlier developers of the Mozilla add support for WebP refused for lack there of important functions, such as support for metadata, color profiles and alpha channel. Now follow the status of work on the integration of WebP in Firefox can be Bugzilla’e project.
