Faster Web FTW!

So you think Google is done revolutionizing the web for the month of September? I think not! Google announced a new image format today called WebP that will be able to reduce image JPEG file sizes by close to 40%! So essentially this will create faster web surfing and furthermore it will reduce the burden on networks - this is huge because statistics show that 65% of the data on the internet is images. But before you start going crazy and jumping around like House of Pain, I must point out some pretty major obstacles - first of all Microsoft tried to do something like this with their JPEG XR format, but as you can see that was a complete fail. Secondly, browsers, cameras, and software aren't able to read WebP format, so there has to be drastic change in order for this to actually work. But Google says they hope to make the file format avaliable and ready to Chrome in the next week so keep an eye out for that. Want to know more about the format? Read Google's blog about it or check out their gallery.

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