{"id":1222,"date":"2020-07-11T07:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T07:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2020-07-11T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T07:37:17","slug":"webp-finally-arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2020\/07\/11\/webp-finally-arriving\/","title":{"rendered":"WebP Finally Arriving?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/webp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/webp.svgz\" style=\"float:right\" alt=\"Logo for WebP\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kind of an interesting month for raster image formats on the web!  Apple just <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/safari-release-notes\/safari-14-beta-release-notes\">recently announced<\/a> that iOS and Safari 14 supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WebP\">WebP image format<\/a>.  Yay - in roughly a year, we can use it everywhere on the web without needing to have a fallback solution (like using <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/codedread\/bitjs#bitjsimage\">WASM to turn WebP into PNG\/JPEG<\/a>).  Now we just have to wait for the rest of the ecosystem (image editors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess next up is for Apple to get on board with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AV1#AV1_Image_File_Format_(AVIF)\">AVIF format<\/a>, since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chrome-and-firefox-are-getting-support-for-the-new-avif-image-format\/\">Firefox and Chrome announced upcoming AVIF support<\/a> just two days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of an interesting month for raster image formats on the web! Apple just recently announced that iOS and Safari 14 supports the WebP image format. Yay &#8211; in roughly a year, we can use it everywhere on the web without needing to have a fallback solution (like using WASM to turn WebP into PNG\/JPEG). [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,35,36,44,25,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrome","category-firefox","category-google","category-safari","category-software","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}