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So what's wrong with webp? Who is driving/opposing the adoption? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems like either

I get a .webp file when I don't want it (downloading images)
I try to use a .webp format, but it isn't allowed (uploading images)

So who is trying to encourage people to use it, and who is trying to prevent adoption?

I'm constantly converting it with imagemagick and other tools

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It's being pushed by Google as a format exclusively designed for the web. It's annoying as fuck because it just started showing up randomly and it's annoying to use for the reasons you mentioned.

Interestingly enough, the first thing it did was put a speedbump in front of is downloading an image from a Google images search. Imagine that.

I think browsers are starting to convert it locally as saving images seems to be slowly returning to some kind of normal. Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've seen file browsers that do implicit conversions which is really helpful. So if you rename a file from pic.webp it automatically gets converted pic.jpg. That's quite useful if you don't care about specific quality parameters. Maybe browsers should just let you save a picture in any major image format.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think that's just an issue with the image viewer you're using supporting webp decoding but not its extension. Most media viewers won't restrict decoding to formats the extension supports.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I don’t think browsers are converting the file when you save. The proper way to implement webp in html is to also include the link to the jpg or png version of the file. So old browser that don’t support webp can still load the image. So the browser just selects the jpg version when you save the image.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Also when uploading images somewhere else you can just change the file extension to png and it works most of the time.