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Dear : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I (mastodon.online)
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Dear @firefox : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I get a webp file the first thing I have to do is convert it manually if I'm going to do *anything* with it.

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

webp is a great format though...

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Too bad so many platforms are not compatible with it. I am constantly having to convert the image type to post the image.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Never had a problem on Linux

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Websites that do not recognize webp normally are fine when you run Linux?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am constantly having to convert the image type to post the image.

Try changing the file extension. Often the extension is checked but not if the file format matches the extension. All browsers read WebP just fine.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. It is better than shitty JPEG encoders but not really much better than good ones. It's lossless was fairly good but still barely worth it. Really we should chuck it for JPEG XL but Google is strong-arming it for unknown reasons.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

jpegxl should be the successor, granted - but that doesn't make webp any less good

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, but it also doesn't make it any good to start with.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Google is strong-arming it for unknown reasons.

lol. Yeah it’s a mystery.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly, great quality and small file sizes. Perfect to reduce web bloat, or loading times when using things like FoundryVTT

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