firefox gets support for google's webp image format, leaving apple safari as main holdout

Firefox gets support for Google's WebP image format, leaving Apple Safari as holdout.   Mozilla this week announced that it will support Google's compressed WebP image format Firefox, leaving Apple's Safari as the browser without any compatibility...   exception to Firefox's newfound support is iOS, d.   Because of Apple policies, third-party iOS browsers, must use the same underlying engine as Safari..   Mozilla's adoption follows recent news from Microsoft that it will support WebP Edge, the browser built into Windows 10..   It was announced in 2010 by Google offering smaller file sizes for quality to JPEG.   Google claims that PNG to WebP conversions in 28 percent to 45 percent reduction in file size, depending on PNG..   Apple is resistant to supporting formats founded by rivals, sometimes to the detriment of the end experience.   Apple TV 4K ca not play YouTube videos 4K resolution, for example, because tvOS is missing Google's VP9 codec..   In 2016, test versions of iOS and macOS Sierra supported WebP, and Apple later backtracked for reasons known to — and are related to the adoption of HEIF as standard..   Read more