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.

  • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Make default programs support JPEG XL and the problem goes away, too, all with less Google.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        1·
        1 year ago

        I highly doubt they use webp to further their ambitions in web-supperiority. They just wanted something where they don’t have to pay license fees.

      • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.