I like this idea. I've created issue #758 <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/758> to look into allowing user-selectable formats.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 2:45 PM pa...@pauland.net <p...@pauland.net> wrote: > What is WebP > > WebP is an image file format that Google developed in 2010 > > Google Says: > > "WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy > compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web > developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster" > > Sounds great but the web has been slow to support WebP images in desktop > and mobile browsers. At this point in 2022 according to data at > https://caniuse.com/webp about 95% of user devices support it. > > So I decided to try to have WeeWX produce all plot images in WebP format > rather than png. Results were impressive, image size was reduced by roughly > 50% , and I can't see any noticeably difference in image quality. > > Switched my website to all WebP images a few days ago, and no ones > complaining, but it doesn’t get much traffic. > > Would really appreciate it if you take a look at my site , and let me know > if you have difficulties viewing the images, and your comments on image > quality. > > https://pauland.net > > Thanks, > > Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/cf52ee8e-65a1-403b-8d4d-dde3670403d8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/cf52ee8e-65a1-403b-8d4d-dde3670403d8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEC2kNdEsypZah-6Wv1ci94DFd9eoU1_a8tSf_V819aUUw%40mail.gmail.com.
