- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.
WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…
It had such a knowledge of the user’s needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.
The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90’s, which eventually, of course, they did.
Unfortunately, we didn’t teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.
Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
Make default programs support opening webp files and the problem goes away. Until that happens users have every reason to convert files from a format that is a pain in the ass to open.
Make default programs support JPEG XL and the problem goes away, too, all with less Google.
Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.
I have no idea what you mean. Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta be getting back to my job at Titanic Boat Repair.
Yes PLEASE, JXL is just way superior and it’s got the benefit of already having JPEG in its name which should ease widespread adoption. I never liked webp and it can seriously get lost.
This. No programs I routinely use images for support it.
Can you list at least a few? Everyone’s like “noooo my apps don’t support it” but nobody says what apps, what are y’all afraid to admit that you use MS Paint or what?
How about a major one? Discord.
If you send any other image or gif, discord will show the image inline. Webp you have to download.
Want another one? Ifranview. An extremely common image viewer that has hyper customization and widespread support.
Want another one? OBS. Because that’s what you need when streaming. Another hoop to jump through in converting the image.
Want another one? Windows. They classify it as html and don’t display image data. Just left as white thumbnails.
Want another one? Photopea. Free online photoshop that you can access through web browser.
Want me to stop being bitchy towards you? Set an example and knock it off yourself.
Irfanview supports it now, I downloaded a plugin last week that added the format.
Viewing webp is one of the reasons I even swapped to Irfanview.
See, that’s fair. I don’t know why people can’t say so. It’s time to name and shame companies that can’t keep up with the times.
I’m not saying webp is the be-all end-all, but goddamn we need to start using more modern compression for things. Especially gif, which is a fucking horrible format for what people use it today.
I still remember when Internet Explorer wouldn’t support png. It takes pressure to get crappy companies to move their ass.
In regards to both Windows and IrfanView, there’s a reason why I’ve been using XnView for 25 years now, with its 500 supported image formats, including webp of course.
Changing one image viewer unfortunately doesn’t change the list of reasons that I have to utterly avoid WebP.
You say naming and shaming but so many companies don’t use it I can only come to the conclusion it’s because WebP is just fucking garbage behind the scenes. That it’s a nightmare to implement or maintain in someway. Tech gets adopted because of simplicity and ease of use. If WebP isn’t being used it’s because it’s less easy to put into place than it is for other extensions.
I use MS paint on a regular basis! I play Civ succession games, so I take some screenshots of the game during my turns. I use Paint to crop them.
The helper utility I’ve been using can save as bmp, png, gif, or jpg.
The built-in Windows snipping tool can save as png, gif, jpg, or mht (which ends up being bmp under the hood).
Hmm, it might just be time to find a replacement tool.
I use my trusty Paint Shop Pro 7 and Paint Tool SAI, neither of which support it.
They do.
Photos in windows supports it. Preview on Mac OS/photos on iOS supports it. I assume anything android would support it as well. Plus every web browser supports it.
It does? Ive tried to use photos to open it before. Its impossible to associate the file with Photos intuitively. I am about to start directly editing my registry to see if i can do it there. (Windows 10, very custom so that might be the issue, I will try on a vanilla copy)
But it took a while for it, and many people are probably running old software without the updates, so at this point the hate has cemented.