Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
So the problem seems to be a proprietary image standard that google are using, that no-one else supports.
India Four Two & SD,
WebP isn't actually propitiatory at all, it's an open standard and is generally very well supported. WebM (it's sister format) is supported by "everything" except IE (which doesn't support HTML5 so that's not surprising). Although it is currently developed by Google, as I said it isn't propitiatory at all.
We make a point of supporting it in our web applications due to it's ubiquity. I am not aware of any "Google specific issues" - if anything it it is other browsers that have "specific" issues!