Programmer Humor

hmm, I usually just change the .webp extension to .png, and most of the time, image viewers just open it without issue.

To be fair, it’s not terrible quality loss, it’s just worse than JPEG, the main format it was trying to replace. It’s way better than GIF though.

Webp's purpose is to display images on web pages in a format that allows fast loading and rendering. When a user downloads or views an image it should be served in a better format. Webp serves it's purpose perfectly. Don't try to download a background of a webpage with the expectation that it will be in a format that is not beneficial to the pages function.

Someone remarked that in film photography, every 10 years, Kodak used to get the brilliant idea that 35mm film is just too complicated for Your Average Consumer, and invented a new "easy to load" cartridge based film format. 126 Instamatic in the 1960s, 110 Pocket Instamatic in the 1970s, Disc Film in the 1980s and the APS in the 1990s. ...Meanwhile, Your Average Consumer didn't give much damn, and while these formats saw some use, most people preferred 35mm.

Same goes with image formats. Apple and Google and Microsoft try to make "better" file formats happen, and I'm sure they have their advantages, but people will stick with JPEG, thanks.

I don't know, but after I've replaced all images on the website I manage with webp, it loads faster. In Firefox, Chromium stuff,...

Webp can be lossy or lossless though, and what kind of shitty apps are you using that don't support it?

At this point I think Facebook messenger and internet explorer are the only ones that don't support it. Oh and maybe the ISS.

Seriously who started this horseshit trend??

I actually use it for creating thumbnails for a sorta niche application. The resulting files are quite small and the quality is fine. I do remember it being a pain in the ass to deal with ~10 years ago.