A first for OS4?

[krashan]

I thought reggae was more for streaming (sound/video) datatypes than static content?

Reggae uses the same concept of static image as WebP ;-). Static image is just a video with a single frame inside. In fact it supports more than 10 image formats, while video framework is still not finished... Lack of free time sucks :-/.

[Boot_WB]

WebP is small fry... OWB for MorphOS supports WebM since about 3 months.

/me runs

"You're terrible Muriel..."

[SamuraiCrow]

Another jpeg2000 I'm afraid. I've never had any use for the jpeg2000 datatype for instance.

There was a hefty licensing fee for the software that creates JPEG2000 images.  That's why that format never caught on.

Is there a licensing fee for WebP?  I don't think so.  The only problem with WebP that I've heard about is that it takes longer to compress than a JPEG.  Having had the same problem with compressing PNGs on a Classic Amiga, I doubt that will be a huge problem as long as the download speed is accelerated by the improved compression.

[warpdesign]

we have mp3, flac and wave

Is sound limited to full loading as well (IIRC you can't have progressive image loading using DT) ? If it's the case, such large sound data format datatype is quite useless... Who would wait 10-15 sec before his mp3 sound is loaded ? Btw, eating a whole 40Mb

Datatype was a good idea, but its concept needs to be extended for today's usage. I guess that's what Reaggae does (in addition to adding filters stuff and a lot more...).

As for webP, I had a quick look at their comparison page, and though I could have the same results by compressing PNG looseless files just a little more than they did. Then the quality is about the same, and even better...

Btw, one nice feature (at that time at least) was progressive loading: does webP support something like this ?