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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s webp and why should I care?

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  • Hackworth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018.

    The format has spotty support across applications and some vulnerabilities were discovered that required patch efforts last year. It’s not clear why you should do anything.

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    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t want to help Google control yet another aspect of the internet.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s there to control? It’s a completely open format. No royalties, no control, nothing.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google’s image format

    It’s smaller than png which a company that shows images really likes because it’s cheaper so to force adoption they convert a bunch of images to .webp on google images

    The problem is that 1. It hadn’t been adapted anywhere so people would have to convert it back to png to use 2. It is worse in every aspect to jxl files so Google has had to block the adaptation of jxl on the web as much as they can (jxl retains more quality and is half the size of webp)

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    • NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If Google wants to push webp because it is smaller than previous formats, and jxl is even smaller than that, why would Google have an interst in blocking jxl?

      Not saying Google did not or does not block jxl, just you chain of logic as to why they do that does not make sense to me.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because it’s not theirs

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      • gregoryw3@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t make sense which is why people believe Google has ulterior motives. I haven’t seen any real reason not to use jxl as the new format; but I also haven’t looked that far into it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    • notanaltaccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Foss users should start making jxl only websites just to fuck chrome users and google.

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    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why should I help Google saturate the internet with yet some else they control?

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• Mio@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because you can’t just double click on an .exe file and choose switch now without many more questions etc.

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