Google is promoting a new image format, aimed at overthrowing the venerable JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Naturally, WebP is faster, and it’s open source. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers squint at their pixels.

This means that websites using .webp files will have to serve JPEG or PNG versions of those images to users accessing the site through Microsoft Edge in Internet Explorer mode.

One response from Alpha (Hin-Chung) Lam, analyzing 63 cat videos from Tumblr, found animated WebP file sizes to be 38 percent of the animated GIF format originals.

The image format 'WebP ' developed by Google to reduce the traffic volume of websites is intended to replace lossy compressed JPEG , lossless compressed GIF , and PNG , and is animated like APNG ...

If you've got a WebP image that you need to edit but can't, converting it to JPG or PNG format might solve your problems. Here's how to do it.

Web developers and graphic artists who want to try the data-saving graphics format now have two choices of open-source plug-ins for Photoshop.

WebP Converter s a free software and an online tool that allows you to convert WebP images to PNG or JPG format and vice-versa.