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This format promotes google. He gives very good results. I think he has a future. Maybe include it in PureBasic?

WebP is a method of lossy compression that can be used on photographic images. The degree of compression is adjustable so a user can choose the trade-off between file size and image quality.

A WebP file consists of VP8 image data, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use the WebP format to create smaller, better looking images that can help make the web faster.

http://code.google.com/intl/ru/speed/webp/gallery.html

zxtunes.com wrote:This format promotes google. He gives very good results.

The word "he" denotes a male living being. You probably mean "it".

Some people are not convinced of "very good results", but think that there is need for improvement:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-announce-WebP-as-an-alternative-to-JPEG-Update-1099766.html wrote:Jason Garrett-Glaser [...] suggests that Google make a good encoder first

So it's probably better to wait some time. And some new things on the internet disapper as fast as they did appear ...

Regards, Little John

Little John wrote:Some people are not convinced of "very good results", but think that there is need for improvement:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-announce-WebP-as-an-alternative-to-JPEG-Update-1099766.html wrote:Jason Garrett-Glaser [...] suggests that Google make a good encoder first

Direct link to his analysis:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/541

Also I don't think we need this a couple of days after the annoucement...*roll eyes*

If WebP takes off and becomes a major image format, I would also like to see support in PB. The file sizes are smaller, so it'd be useful to reduce bandwidth.

Since it's a lossy format, I'd be much more interested in encoding capability than decoding. Not much point loading degraded images, as opposed to saving them.

But of course WebP is a long way away yet.

EDIT: Maybe not so far off: the first program to support it has been announced: PixelMator.