I am a fundamentalist and a minimalist when it comes to web technologies. My belief is that it is far better to cast a bigger compatibility net than it is to limit access with features. Because of this, I have steered clear of webp and other next gen image formats. But after some research and testing, I believe I have found a HTML5 fall back solution with the use of the Modernizr JavaScript Detection Plugin. I will post more of this later.
Research: Webp Image Format
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The next round of emerging image formats are truly amazing. While they are still in their infancy, there is great promise to formats like WebP. In this article, I dig in to WebP usage and examine how to handle fallback for other, more common, image formats.