By packing HTML and JavaScript into the header data of the image file, you can end up with a valid image (JPG or PNG) file that will nonetheless be interpreted as HTML by a browser.

JPEG (left) vs. WebP (right) image quality. As you can see, ... For now, the only way of rendering a BPG file is with a BPG decoder written in JavaScript -- about 71 kilobytes of JS, ...

French programmer Fabrice Bellard has come up with a graphics format he believes can "replace the JPEG image format." Bellard’s BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format boasts a compelling quality ...

Google has developed a new open-source image compression algorithm that it says can reduce the size of JPEG images by 35 percent. The algorithm, dubbed Guetzil (that's Swiss German for cookie), is ...