Thread: webp image handling
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Old 08-28-2022, 01:58 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Is webp (still?) a candidate format for the ePub spec or has it even been adopted in readers/apps???
It's been "allowed" in EPUB3 since 2020:

but supported in many apps? Not really.

I wrote a bit about it the last time it was brought up:

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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
More and more images online are provided in .webp format. Up 'till now I've just been converting them to .jpg (other than it is an 'optimized' format, I haven't researched the benefit of .webp yet).
It has some benefits (like smaller filesize + less ringing compared to JPG), but has slight downsides too (like much smoother).

Google pushed it incredibly hard, which is why much of the web has supported it.

But, in ebooks, for maximum support, it's still best to use good ol' JPG, PNG, (or GIF).
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