Whats the WebP Graphics Format?
Dave’s Answer: Your client is both right and wrong. First there was GIF, the Graphics Interchange Format, and it was pretty good for early computer systems in that it was highly compressed. Tweaks were added so it supported progressive rendering, transparent colors, etc., but the fundamental limitation was a max of 255 colors. Not so good for a photograph! Then JPEG came along as part of the output format from the Joint Photographic Experts Group and it had all sorts of cool features including the ability to accurately render millions of colors. Much better for photos, obviously, but it was hampered by a big problem: one of the actual JPEG encoding schemes is protected under patent, so technically you need to license it to include JPEG support in your graphics application. Enter PNG, Progressive Network Graphic. Released in the mid 1990’s, it was intended to live somewhere between GIF and JPEG as a graphics format, utilizing algorithms that made it open source (by that time GIF was als
