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Webp isn’t better. Its support is awful. Geordy would know that.
What modern software does not support it? Sometimes animated images are only rendered as a static image of the first frame of the animation, but it is fairly universally supported nowadays.
This, along with editing, converting is a pain, lots of 3rd party apps, websites, and forms do not support uploading them etc.
It barely has better support, but by a couple of hairs, and only half-assed at best.
When I started contributing to joinfediversewiki, all my screenshot uploads failed... until I wondered if it was because they were in Webp. Fortunately the site admin added it to the approved formats for me.
Also my (formerly) preferred screenshot tool, Ksnip, doesn't handle Webp.
Yeah, let's just hand over even more of the Internet to Google. Great idea
AVIF is also great! if for some reason you don't like webp because google makes it, AVIF uses AV1 which is an open codec.
it's also much smaller. great for web graphics
fuck webp. in-fact fuck all the new corpo sponsored standards.
there was nothing wrong with png, gif, or jpg.
tinfoil hat time. all the new corpo sponsored web standards exist for one purpose, to control the development of the internet so that the corpo-overlords can continue pumping users for "value".
Webp wouldn’t be a thing if not for Google using it’s monopoly to push it on people
WebP is super useful. I developed an offline hiking map app and it contained 900MB of PNG map tiles. Way too huge for a mobile app. I converted them to WebP and now they take 50MB while looking the same. It's amazing.
You got to at least like avif. Both in lossless and lossy mode it’s better than the formats from the 90s. It’s community run, patent free, faster, higher quality, and well supported.
what corporate entity submitted the RFC?
I mean if that’s your standard you need to drop quite a bit more.
PNG was submitted by Boutell.Com, Inc (now doing payday loans)
GIF was submitted by Compuserve Inc.
JPEG was (in its original form) was by C-Cube Microsystems, Inc
Avif is an open source, royalty free, better format administrated by a non profit.
Companies (including Netflix) should be encouraged to contribute to the community under such standards.
Open source, royalty free, better formats, administrated by a non profit Is the goal.
And yet, surprisingly, I can often get a gif down to a smaller file size and better image quality than a webp file.
Still, there's hope for it yet if it improves!
avif is the superior format to webp. 💝
That was pretty simple. And even much smaller than the equivalent WebP

Is this meant to be animated? I guess summit doesn't support it if so
I don't trust webp. I don't like its name.
Look at me! The web will now use my picture standard.
You don't enjoy website piss? Why? It's sterile and refreshing!
Regarding its name: I had no idea until today that the B is silent
WebP (/ˈwɛpi/ WEP-ee)
Experimental JPEG-XL support in Firefox (and forks) can be enabled by setting the pref image.jxl.enabled to true in about:config.
Obligatory jwz take on webp.
Will this settle the gif/jif debate once and for all?
svg is da way
What about gifv


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