Chrome 32 Beta Has A Vibration API, Animated WebP

[RahulSundaram]

Vibration API? Brace yourselves, porn sites with vibrator controls are coming. Really Google?

Don't be silly. You will have full control over which websites you allow and this is primary for mobile web applications.

[RahulSundaram]

Website developers should be free to support/use any FOSS/open image format that they want. Mozilla should support it and let the web decided whether to use it or not. It's not like its supporting a closed image type, that Mozilla should suppress.

No. Mozilla shouldn't add any new image format within the browser introducing additional fragmentation and potential security risks without first demonstrating that WebP provides enough of an advantage to counterbalance the negative factors. Just because Google has decided to release a new format doesn't mean Mozilla should immediately sign up especially as the format is rapidly evolving. Let them take their time. It is not like IE is going to add support for it anytime soon either.

[liam]

Phoronix: Chrome 32 Beta Has A Vibration API, Animated WebP

The Google engineers working on the Chrome/Chromium web-browser have released the beta to the upcoming version 32 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUyMjI

Very happy that goog adopted this webapi. Hopefully the rest will eventually make their way in but webkit is pretty far behind at the moment.

[dh04000]

There's political reasons? When I got interested in WebP, I looked up a bunch of articles about what it provides. What I saw (from tests and live examples) was that WebP provided nothing over the current JPG compression method. In fact, in the examples it showed that WebP actually had more artifacting when increasing compression.

But that was earlier this year, maybe it's gotten better? :P

Website developers should be free to support/use any FOSS/open image format that they want. Mozilla should support it and let the web decided whether to use it or not. It's not like its supporting a closed image type, that Mozilla should suppress.

[dh04000]

Vibration API? Brace yourselves, porn sites with vibrator controls are coming. Really Google?

[Daktyl198]

What pisses me off is that Mozilla is completely ignoring the WebP for some stupid political reasons (see the bug report). It could be the image format of the future for frak sake! :/

There's political reasons? When I got interested in WebP, I looked up a bunch of articles about what it provides. What I saw (from tests and live examples) was that WebP provided nothing over the current JPG compression method. In fact, in the examples it showed that WebP actually had more artifacting when increasing compression.

But that was earlier this year, maybe it's gotten better? :P

[Redi44]

Damn

What pisses me off is that Mozilla is completely ignoring the WebP for some stupid political reasons (see the bug report). It could be the image format of the future for frak sake! :/

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 32 Beta Has A Vibration API, Animated WebP

The Google engineers working on the Chrome/Chromium web-browser have released the beta to the upcoming version 32 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUyMjI