One problem that Youtube saw with WebP: users wanted to download thumbnails & view them locally, but didn't have WebP viewers. #AtScale2014
@pamelafox Could they intercept right-clicks and swap the src under the covers?
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@wycats@pamelafox or just register the browser to handle that format? -
@stefanpenner@pamelafox yeah I wonder why Chrome didn't do that to help out YouTube ...
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@wycats@pamelafox was actually a problem FB saw, YouTube didn't really have people downloading thumbnails. We might have swapped… -
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@pamelafox@wycats I can't find the details, but I bet@Vjeux knows, I think he was working on photos at the time. -
@zpao@pamelafox@wycats The way we ran the test on web was to change ALL the urls to webp. It may be possible to swap under right click -
@zpao@pamelafox@wycats we decided to focus on native mobile for webp first, where bandwidth gains are much more critical to a good xp -
@zpao@pamelafox@wycats The tldr is that webp is better for thumbnails and jpeg is better for big images.
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@wycats@pamelafox Seems crazy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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