Η Mozilla announced the project mozjpeg, through which the compression of images JPEG will be against 10% greater, and consequently the Browsing it will become faster.
His goal mozjpeg is to produce one quality JPEG encoder which will offer higher compression while maintaining the compatibility with existing ones.
So far, the Results of mozjpeg after tests on about 1.500 JPEG photos, show a compression of its order Present in several = 10%. Of course, Mozilla hopes to get higher compression in the next versions of mozjpeg.
Initially the company wanted to develop it hers lossy compression format, but its example Google to WebP που failed to prevail in the market, led to the creation of mozjpeg, to improve the popular JPEG.
Read more about mozjpeg here.
Source: e-pcmag.gr