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GIMP User Guide Inaccuracy - abcjme - 02-23-2019
p. 69
It says of JPEG: "No other format comes close to achieving the same level of compression."
That must've been written before webp.
RE: GIMP User Guide Inaccuracy - rich2005 - 02-23-2019
As far as I know, the Gimp documentation is more-or-less a single person and help is really needed. The document is a rolling update from previous documents, so statements like that will eventually be replaced.
Maybe you could help with the updates, see:
https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-contributing.html
edit:
Quote:That must've been written before webp.
Certainly was, I pulled out a Gimp 2.4 help (pdf) exactly the same paragraph
but lot more pages now than then. https://i.imgur.com/sSJ2TYw.jpg
RE: GIMP User Guide Inaccuracy - Ofnuts - 02-23-2019
Webp doesn't strike me as being vastly more efficient than JPEG...