CloudConvert.com might as well be my fucking home page.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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Is this the latest hate trend? Is it that time of the year again?
How can one even get annoyed this much by WebP lol
at this point i will take any open image format newer than png
It supports transparency like PNGs, and animations like GIFs, and is generally not a bad format on its own due to its balance of quality and file size.
The issue is that support for it is lacking; a large number of major media applications don't have any WebP functionality, meaning that an image being WebP format only adds an irritating extra step where you have to convert it to PNG to use it. The other issue is that the adoption of the format online is disproportionately high, compared to its adoption by major app developers. It's bizarrely common to download an image, only to find that you can't use it because your software (I.e. Photoshop, Clip Studio, OBS) doesn't support it, so now you have to either convert it to PNG somehow or hunt down a new file that isn't a WebP. For visual artists of all kinds, this is a tremendous pain in the ass, and it's pretty obvious that it doesn't need to be that way in the first place.
When it affects your workflow at your job.
The reason half of us have jobs is because of workflows being affected by things
I love you.
Haha you too thanks champ
libwebp
By having a sheltered and otherwise empty life.
Tis the season for strong weird opinions and needing someone else's website to run imagemagick commands for you.
Where have you been for the last few years lol
Uhh... Building apps and websites and converting images to and from webp without much of an issue. It's kind of weird to hear about this hate on webp given that it's a great tool. But considering it's a Google product and that I'm kind of new to the Fediverse, it now makes sense that I missed the hate altogether. I've yet to meet another fellow dev with strong opinions on it.
I've seen it all around. People dislike it because (I'm guessing) it's Google's and because not everything supports it. Used to be worse of course. Over at 4chan they hate it because you can't upload WebP there (but you can WebM, which is interesting).