I remember once I was making a presentation using Google slides, I wanted to add an image when it told me that “webp format is not supported”. Webp… Made by google… In google slides…
Can someone please tell me why everyone hates on WebP? It’s supported by basically everything, has better compression, supports both lossy and lossless compression, and supports an alpha channel. It’s basically a trade-off between PNG/JPEG for compatibility and JPEG-XL for features and compression.
When you download an image and it’s a WEBP…
Why is that a problem? Unless you use outdated software any app should open it just fine.
As an example, on my computer I have 2 (3 if you count WMP) apps for opening photos and 2 for editing ones:
Default Windows Photos App - Opens WEBP
Honeyview - Opens WEBP
Windows Media Player - Opens WEBP files, but I guess this is an obscure way to view pictures.
Built-in MSPaint - Opens WEBP, but doesn’t save them
paint.net - Opens WEBP and saves them
And of course web browsers open them as well just fine.
I remember once I was making a presentation using Google slides, I wanted to add an image when it told me that “webp format is not supported”. Webp… Made by google… In google slides…
Can someone please tell me why everyone hates on WebP? It’s supported by basically everything, has better compression, supports both lossy and lossless compression, and supports an alpha channel. It’s basically a trade-off between PNG/JPEG for compatibility and JPEG-XL for features and compression.
Lots of services online don’t support webp uploads, plenty of programs still don’t recognize webp, etc.
Ah. Guess I’ve just been lucky.
::shudder::