Google has developed a new web image format known as WebP to deal with the issue of latency when loading image-heavy web pages, particularly on mobile devices. The announcement came via the Chromium ...

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Web application development is one of the biggest trends in this era because now a day’s software has tons of functionality that cannot work properly on our hand held devices and our home computers.

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...

Firefox programmers reconsidered their opposition to Google's image format for two reasons: new data showing graphics files 30 percent smaller for faster page loads -- and that the info came from a ...

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One of the biggest challenges of the web is the adoption rate of new technologies. It’s not ...

There’s a new web image format on the horizon. The companies behind Chrome and Firefox are pushing for a new, more efficient image format. We’re talking about the AV1 image file format which would ...

Most web browsers and photo viewers can open this common image file format A PNG file is a Portable Network Graphics file.

If you work anywhere near a Web site, sooner or later you’ll have to deal with graphics. Unfortunately, not everyone who winds up handling graphics is a professional designer, and even experienced Web ...