Mozilla apparently implementing WebP support for Firefox

  • Interesting. I would've thought they wouldn't support it anymore, considering there's an even smaller chance that Apple and Microsoft would support it, too. I was thinking that maybe they're waiting on the NETVC/Daala/Thor/VP10 video codec standardization by the IETF, which would then be followed by a new standard for images on the web based on the same technology. But I guess they're going with webp for now. I wonder why they finally decided to support webp.

  • Importantly, the webp format supports animation, and is considerably more efficient than animated gif. [1]

    [1] http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/fl_awebp/cell_an...