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Google still pushing its WebP image format

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Doubt it (Score: 2, Insightful)

by useless@pipedot.org on 2014-03-22 21:05 (#RM)

No one cares about file size anymore. Even mobile views of your typical news site page are multiple megabytes in size, between useless embedded video/animated gifs, dozens of tracker .js files, slideshows, using html/css to resize full resolution images, etc.

5-10 years ago when bandwidth was a premium and substance mattered more than style, maybe WebP would have caught on. Today, general users don't care, they just want the shiny things.

Re: Doubt it (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-03-22 22:55 (#RN)

I'm tempted to agree with you, but then I look down at my phone, which is laboring over its crappy 3G connection to bring in a webpage, and I think, there might be use for this thing yet?

In a way, internet-over-smartphone rivals the days of dialup in terms of frustration. There are some heavy, graphic laden sites I simply don't visit on my smart phone - not worth the bother; I know it will never work. (I know, let's create a parallel mobile site with some javascript to determine if we have to send you to that one! - No, fix your f*cking site).

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2014-03-25 10:42 Interesting +1 nadaou@pipedot.org
2014-03-25 03:55 Normal 0 reziac@pipedot.org

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