Comment by magicalist
2 days ago
> webp seemed like some ad-hoc pet project in chrome
FWIW webp came from the same "research group in google switzerland" that later developed jpegxl.
2 days ago
> webp seemed like some ad-hoc pet project in chrome
FWIW webp came from the same "research group in google switzerland" that later developed jpegxl.
I now see that webp lossless is definitely from there, but the webp base format looks acquired from a US startup, was the image format also adapted in the swiss group?