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Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web (cnet.com)
Firefox has joined Google's WebP party, another endorsement for the internet giant's effort to speed up the web with a better image format. From a report: Google revealed WebP eight years ago and since then has built it into its Chrome web browser, Android phone software and many of its online properties in an effort to put websites on a diet and cut network data usage. But Google had trouble encouraging rival browser makers to embrace it. Mozilla initially rejected WebP as not offering enough of an improvement over more widely used image formats, JPEG and PNG. It seriously evaluated WebP but chose to try to squeeze more out of JPEG. But now Mozilla -- like Microsoft with its Edge browser earlier this week -- has had a change of heart. "Mozilla is moving forward with implementing support for WebP," the nonprofit organization said. WebP will work in versions of Firefox based on its Gecko browser engine, Firefox for personal computers and Android but not for iOS.
In an age where Americans have degenerated to the level of stupidity where they take high-fidelity audio and video, then down-scale resolution frame-rate and color-depth, mute it, and subtitle it, just so they can repost it as GIF on reddit.com imgur.com and other retarded web sites, you decide to complain about... PNG?