The Google Image Storage Format webp adds background transparency similar to PNG

Google recently posted a blog post about their new image storage format-Webp. Google intends to make webp a new network graphics storage format standard to challenge the status of JPEG, PNG and other formats. We learned from the blog that webp has added new transparency effects. Anyone who knows about JPEG knows that JPEG does not support transparent background Effects While PNG supports transparent effects.

The first version of webp uses lossy compression to reduce the size of image files to ensure faster image file loading. Of course, lossy compression reduces the image quality. The new webp adopts the lossless compression method, which ensures the image file loading speed and does not affect the image quality. Currently, only the chrome browsers of opera and Google support webp image files. [Read the full text]