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 ...

Google is happy enough with WebP to spread it across the company, including the Google+ app on Android. Also: new features coming to WebP. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The Firefox developer hasn't committed to support WebP, but it's investigating after large Web sites expressed interest. Also: Google upgrades WebP with new version 0.3.0 release. Stephen Shankland ...

Google is pushing for more websites to adopt the WebP image format, even as the company rolls out support for the next generation image and photo standard across its own websites and services. In a ...