WebP support

  • Hello!

    I’m a glad user of FooGallery and FooBox on our school’s website (https://gtgs.info). In the last few days I also translated and approved the strings of both plugins into german.

    I also use ShortPixel Image Optimizer which created WebP versions of all my images and thumbnails. By replacing <img>– with <picture>-tags this works flawless in Chrome for normal embedded images on my site.

    WP Fastest Cache took also care of WebP in my .htaccess:

    # BEGIN WEBPWpFastestCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} jpg|png
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.webp -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/$1.webp" [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary Accept env=REDIRECT_accept
Header set Expires "max-age=2592000, public"
Header unset ETag
Header set Connection keep-alive
FileETag None
</IfModule>
AddType image/webp .webp
# END WEBPWpFastestCache

    But still thumbs in Foogallery and – most important – large images in Foobox are delivered only as JPGs/PNGs.

    I wonder if you have plans of any kind for support of .webp images in the future. Something like this:

    Check if browser supports WebP --> Check if according ".webp"-image exists --> Deliver ".webp"-version instead of .jpg/.png

    Or is there anything I could change in the code of FooGallery or FooBox (as a quick fix) to achieve this?

    Thanks for any idea and best regards

    Oliver Schmehr

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author bradvin

    (@bradvin)

    Hi Oliver,

    Firstly thanks for your translations ??

    I will discuss how we can support WebP images with the team. I will also look at how ShortPixel generates the files so that we can incorporate them if they are available.

    It becomes a bit tricky as the webP support is done in the browser.

    thanks again

    Plugin Author bradvin

    (@bradvin)

    @oschmehr please contact me via brad @ fooplugins . com

    Thread Starter Oliver Schmehr

    (@oschmehr)

    Hi Bradvin!

    Thanks for your reply.
    It would be great if your team could incorporate WebP support in the future. At the moment only Chrome and Opera support it, but I think it will get more popular over time since the compression rates are amazing compared to JPG!

    I’m not much of a tech guy, but the browser check on server level in .htaccess is done by one simple line of code: RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp
    I would be surprised if there is nothing corresponding in PHP. ??

    Best regards
    Oliver

    Thread Starter Oliver Schmehr

    (@oschmehr)

    Hello @bradvin,

    I contacted you via eMail 3 days ago as requested. Did you get it?
    You can also contact me via schmehr [at] gmail dot com

    Regards
    Oliver Schmehr

    Plugin Author bradvin

    (@bradvin)

    Hi
    I replied to your mail recently. sorry for the delay.

    Also, I found this page really useful which I will be investigating further : https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq

    cheers

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