Why “WebP” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
JXL is too new to draw any conclusions. But indeed, the market has spoken and it doesn't want avif. I tried adding avif support to a service myself, but the very slow encode spe…
by tredre3 · Oct 7, 2026
It wasn't some one company's choice and push. Almost everyone wins when bandwidth is cut and you get higher quality for less space. I'd argue most people's hatred for webp purel…
by miladyincontrol · Oct 7, 2026
Personally, I avoid WebP out of spite. While it has greatly improved over previous formats in certain uses, it has been lacking or offering only marginal improvements in others.…
by F3nd0 · Oct 7, 2026
seems to refer to webp not jxl
by throawayonthe · Oct 7, 2026
I think the main issue with webp is it was pushed as purely a web delivery optimisation format and not a final output file you’d use in software. So it worked fine if you have a…
by Gigachad · Oct 7, 2026
Unless you're targeting really old browsers, lossless WebP is absolutely worth it over PNG. As a test, I have a set of 36 old MS paint Drawings, originally drawn on Windows 98SE…
by Denatonium · Oct 7, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "webp" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "webp" over time.
WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google and intended as a replacement for the JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats on the Web. It supports image compression, as well as animation and alpha compositing. The sister project for video is called WebM. Read more on Wikipedia