I feel like this meme is five years old and describing a situation that is no longer reality.
Just this week I tried to upload a webp to google drawings (the google drive document for some kind of vector graphics), but google drawings only accepted gif, jpeg, and png. That taught me, that google drawings dosn’t receive any updates any more and probably soon will be killed by google, and also, that webp still isn’t available everywhere.
Webp is funded by google holy fuck
I’m personally convinced that every Google project team has at minimum 3 people whose only job is to optimise that projects incompatibility with other Google products…
still have that problem and i hate how much of a pita it is to switch it off in most browsers (that i tried at least)
I feel like even back then, this was a Windows problem I was too Linux to understand.
I have literally never had a problem opening a .webp. By the time my browser started downloading in that format, all my other software (Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc.) already supported it too.
It’s more a website thing. A lot of websites for a while didn’t take .webp. Roll20 was the most annoying one to me
Still pisses me off on the regular, but maybe there’s a trick to fix this that I haven’t learned.
What I see now is pages lossily compressing pngs “because webp can do lossless” instead of just handing me the png file they still have.
And there are still tons of issues with webapps out of my control not supporting it.
Etsy uses webp internally but won’t let you upload one.
I have that problem avif, especially on lemmy, as it opens as a new tab instead of loading the image below the post title. A bunch of android apps I use don’t recognize avif either
A week or few ago, I asked about the issue with certain image posts opening in a new tab instead of expanding when I click. It was in a random post affected by the new tab issue and I never got a response, at least I don’t think I did.
Now that you mentioned avif, I double-checked, and sure enough that’s the reason. I don’t know why I didn’t notice.
A while back it happened with images hosted on something called catbox or shitbox whatever it was called. For awhile the images wouldn’t load at all in my browsers because the certificate for that domain was bad. Then for awhile, I suppose after they fixed the cert, they’d open up in a new tab instead of expand. But, it’s been some time since I’ve noticed and I don’t see many/any shitbox/catbox hosted images anymore.
More websites take jpeg XL than webp x)
spoilers because big
my least favorite is this one:
because you have to click it.I don’t think I have seen errors about it being an unrecognised or unsupported format since it’s inception… Where the fuck are y’all trying to load/upload shit that don’t take .webp?
Photoshop CC 2022-m0nkrus
?format=jpeg
I’ve got that shit pinned on my clipboard.
Firefox:
Ctrl + Shift + S-> Captures an iamge from the page, allowing you to save or copy it in PNG format.Don’t hate me, but can’t you just change the extension to .jpg?
No, it’s a different format underneath.
Occasionally it’ll work, cause an app will use a library that supports webp but forget to add it to the file picker (or deliberately don’t want it) but generally no.
Just had this experience with some .png files I downloaded. Apparently Chrome, which i used on my work computer to get some game files, downloads images in .webp by default. Even if specifically saved as other formats. Game wouldn’t recognize my pngs until I changed them back to .webp like you described, opened them in PS, and exported as .png. The filetype does some funky stuff
Apparently Chrome, which i used on my work computer to get some game files, downloads images in .webp by default.
Some servers will serve webp to supported browsers to save bandwidth, even if the URL ends in
.png. So its not Chrome’s default, its the website.
Simply changing the extension wouldn’t work because each image type has a specific header - even changing a .png to .jpg wouldn’t work - and organizes the actual image data in different ways.
The header is what actually identifies the file type. For webp, it’s called the RIFF header and it must be 21 bytes (it’s a standardized specification, btw). For jpeg, the header is only 2 bytes and has the values
FF D8. In theory, this means that you could even rename the file toimage.zipand, if you opened it in an appropriate program, it would read the header and still render it properly
