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[–] thantik 29 points 11 months ago (4 children)

When you download an image and it's a WEBP......

[–] Matriks404 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Why is that a problem? Unless you use outdated software any app should open it just fine.

As an example, on my computer I have 2 (3 if you count WMP) apps for opening photos and 2 for editing ones:

  • Default Windows Photos App - Opens WEBP

  • Honeyview - Opens WEBP

  • Windows Media Player - Opens WEBP files, but I guess this is an obscure way to view pictures.

  • Built-in MSPaint - Opens WEBP, but doesn't save them

  • paint.net - Opens WEBP and saves them

And of course web browsers open them as well just fine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Website forms when you're adding a file: WebP? What the fuck is that?

[–] AccountableMenace 8 points 11 months ago

I remember once I was making a presentation using Google slides, I wanted to add an image when it told me that "webp format is not supported". Webp... Made by google... In google slides...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's the internet standard. Anything but that is going to take long to load.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] force 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

why, it's an objectively better format. unless you're on windows xp i guess

one could argue "but a few things don't support it" but that's always going to be a problem with innovation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[citation needed]

PNGs are not that big, dude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well webm was build for the web and png not.

It would of been nice to have Jpeg XL but that didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dosen't PNG stand for Portable Network Graphic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? I just know that webm images load faster and are smaller.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have any actual data for that or did you just read it on a blog about webdev and take it at face value?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kind of both, I read about it and I know that WordPress and other CMS will convert images to webm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's not data though. Do you have numbers saying webps load faster?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Can someone please tell me why everyone hates on WebP? It's supported by basically everything, has better compression, supports both lossy and lossless compression, and supports an alpha channel. It's basically a trade-off between PNG/JPEG for compatibility and JPEG-XL for features and compression.

[–] thantik 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of services online don't support webp uploads, plenty of programs still don't recognize webp, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah. Guess I've just been lucky.