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Oh my god this is awesome!! I wanted to make something like this for myself for a while but never got around to it, unfortunately.

webp: nahhhh

jpegXL: yooooo

What's its advantages?

Drives me crazy every time!

Is it "Save webp as extension"? This is what I use. I like it because you can still save as webp if you want, but it pops up with other options.

It has a really good compression algorithm and can preserve more detail in a smaller filesize.

As a website owner you usually pay for outbound traffic or atleast storage, thus having a smaller file reduces your cost, appart from the benefit that more users are able to load the file.

Genuine question, what's great about webp? I must be missing something

It's good for serving 1st-gen ephemeral images that you don't care about, but bad if you want to keep an image around for archiving or sharing. It has many random limitations with its lossy and lossless format, including a low bit depth, no support for 4:4:4, no support for HDR, and no support for progressive decoding. This is especially annoying for a lossless format, as you'll often be losing data when converting from a format like PNG, defeating the purpose of lossless.

You might be surprised how good JPEG still is in this day and age. We have dragged JPEGs corpse across the decades with newer and better encoders, and JPEG is actually still a solid format because of this effort. People have a deep impression that JPEG sucks, because it used to suck. The JPEG we know today is not the JPEG of the past. MozJPEG is an excellent modern encoder and gives great results at very fast encode/decode speeds.

People might want to argue about how good WebP is in comparison to JPEG, but in reality there are two newer formats that far outclass WebP and don't have its quirks - JPEG XL and AVIF. JPEG XL is the best option we have currently and it's not even close, given that it's a real modern image format and not just a video codec repurposed for images, like AVIF. The problem is that Google is putting its weight behind AVIF, and is trying to kill JPEG XL by taking support for JPEG XL out of Google Chrome. Firefox has followed suit as they're also a member of the AOM which developed AVIF. Almost any fork of Google Chrome or Firefox puts JPEG XL back in, at least.

This article goes over some of the competing formats, and I especially like this image as a comparison matrix. You can probably find more articles by Cloudinary and Jon Sneyers on the topic. It's one of the most obvious instances of why we should not be letting Google rule 100% of the browser market - they can kill competition on things like this with the flip of a switch.

At least on my Android 12 phone, FB Messenger refuses to send it. Says the format isn't recognised, even though it shows a preview in the picker.

I know that isn't the format's fault, but it does cause me hassle sometimes, and does lead to the reaction in the posted meme.

I don't use Arch, btw (downvotes incomng!)

install qt5-imageformats for anyone else having issues viewing webp like i was (gwenview is my main image media viewer)

1.) Download the webp image

2.) Open using paint

3.) Save as png

Just tested it, and the latest versions of macOS and iOS can both display WebP images.

while that will work for the majority of images, webp is not just a container for jpeg compression and allows for much more (animated webp for example is the near perfect replacement for animated gif yet very few applications support it).

The big advantage is that webm and webp can use a variety of formats really well and allows you to pick the one most appropriate for your content whilst still having a container format that supports it.

Yeah, i used this trick on Windows, but when i switched to Linux it doesn't work

And webp handling still doesn't work properly outside of browsers.

WHAT files?

The answer is a couple of comments above your comment

I found ImageGlass to be very slow, especially when opening images. It should be snappy. JPEGView, instead, is lightning fast.