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WebP MIME type not recognized in Firefox

Is the world ready for the new image format WebP ?

I'm considering using it, the specs look very sexy, however, it seems like it is not supported on Firefox (and who knows which other web browsers), I noticed that a OkCupid.com is using it, but if you go there using Firefox - it seems like they are delivering JPEG instead...

I wonder how OkCupid do that - do they keep additional JPEG for each image, or maybe a HttpModule ??

I even added this on my web.config

<mimeMap fileExtension=".webp" mimeType="image/webp" />

Am I missing something? Why doesn't it work in all browsers?

Solution

  • After talking to James South (creator of ImageProcessor) I understand that only Chrome and Opera support WebP, in other words - the world is still not ready for WebP (try again in few years)