You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

One of the biggest challenges of the web is the adoption rate of new technologies. It’s not enough to develop a great idea, a new format or a technology in general if the majority of people can’t use ...

Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Anyone trying to save images from websites these days is increasingly stumbling across the new WebP image format. But what is it actually? WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...

Look, I get it. WebP is the future and it has many advantages over PNG and JPEG. That doesn’t make it any less annoying when I accidentally download a WebP image and can’t do anything with it, though.

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...

You have probably tried downloading an image from a website, expecting a typical JPEG or PNG picture, and instead received a WebP file. Those WebP image don’t ...

You can convert a WEBP file to JPG using built-in programs on a Mac or Windows PC. Third-party services like Adobe Photoshop and Convertio will also allow you to ...

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video for ...

It's a major endorsement for the file format, but some social-network members are upset to have lost their flexible, sharable JPEGs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...