webp hate is one thing I never understood, especially on lemmy. it has worked flawlessly for me, if you use dogshit image viewers thats on you.
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Google probably realizes literally nobody likes WEBP and avoids using it
cheesorist@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
taaz@biglemmowski.win 3 days ago
have not hear anything bad about webp, whats up with that
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 days ago
Mainly a compatibility thing afaik. For web stuff it's actually pretty great but people don't like not being able to download it in a format that works with image viewers and editing apps
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 days ago
So it's basically "nobody wants to use it because nobody is using it."
I actually rather like it, and at this point many of the tools I use have caught up so I don't mind it any more myself.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 days ago
Honestly I think it was because Microsoft took forever to implement support for it in Windows systems, like the image viewer and Explorer. That is assuming there’s support now. I don’t actually know.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Probably some of that. Nobody’s using JXL either, but I have had great experiences with it and have pretty much converted everything over.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 days ago
I went through the same process, only with JPEGXL, because I don’t trust Google with anything.¹
¹ A blatant lie, since I haven’t found a good replacement for Go.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.
glowie@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Would be nice if browsers could reconvert to PNG for download
webhead@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s an extension in Firefox that I used to use for that. Would be nice to have and built in tho.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I don’t know why it works but if i rename a .webp extension into a .png or .jpg it just works.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 days ago
It works because the .png and .jpg extensions are associated on your system with programs that, by coincidence, are also able to handle webp images and that check the binary content of the file to figure out what format they are when they're handling them.
If there's a program associated with .png on a system that doesn't know how to handle webp, or that trusts the file extension when deciding how to decode the contents of the file, it will fail on these renamed files. This isn't a reliable way to "fix" these sorts of things.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nothing, most software has supported webp for 15 years, the last few stragglers have caught up two years ago or so, people on the internet are just very incapable of letting go of an opinion.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It is apparently good at making animated media however its format is incompatible with many software media viewers.
It’s the bane of my existence when trying to save an image, but I am also exploring its uses in making animated backgrounds for graphical chat interfaces.
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At this point if you’re going to use WebP you may as well just use AVIF instead, better compression ratio and the support matrix isn’t that different between them.
ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 2 days ago
webp is great on discord for “gifs” if u need fit a long animation under 10 meg limit. And you can make it with ffmpeg
FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Webp is actually good format AFAIK better than the traditional alternatives it’s just that it doesn’t have such wide support and jpeg-xl is superior in many things.
tekato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is being done because PDF is adopting JPEG XL, so Chromium must support it since it doubles as a PDF reader.