Why “WebP” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Isn’t HALIC proprietary? JPEG XL is an open format with a libre reference implementation, usually compresses better than WebP/PNG, and supposedly has plenty of room for imp…
by F3nd0 · Sep 15, 2026
>Maybe a lossless re-encoding of my website JPEGs to gain 20% size is not worth the 33% I was unpleasantly surprised when jxl's reference encoder dropped critical exif tags for…
by innocent_name · Sep 14, 2026
Maybe you're just bad at reading text. Again, read the post carefully. Look around... nobody else had the same interpretation as you, so maybe that should clue you in something…
by juliobbv · Sep 14, 2026
Strange blog post. Given that it's from a developer of proprietary and paid commercial encoders, the inclusion of their upcoming "aperture-alpha" encoder on the charts that are…
by arthur-st · Sep 14, 2026
Is there a way to have fast on-the-fly WebP encoding? When i checked it, it was unusably slow (multiple seconds for large images), but maybe that was the implementation. That al…
by Semaphor · Sep 14, 2026
I think the need for lossless images within a web page is extremely niche. I've used them before when comparing image codecs, but that's about it. In cases where you need lossle…
by jaffathecake · Sep 14, 2026
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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