Thats why I built a tool that watches my download folder and converts webp and webm to png and mp4 preserving the original. Its still missing some features but its available on my GitHub for free as OSS
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Oh my god this is awesome!! I wanted to make something like this for myself for a while but never got around to it, unfortunately.
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.webp is a good format. It's Adobe's fault for not properly supporting it.
webp: nahhhh
jpegXL: yooooo
What's its advantages?
Better compression and more features, it's really nice for reducing website load times
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I have a firefox extension that I use at least multiple times a day, that lets me select which format to download an image in - from JPGs (with multiple compression options) to PNG and WEBPs.
I’ll update this post with the name when I have access to my computer.
So, what you're saying is that you always download in lossless or perceptually lossless webp or avif? 🔫
Wonder stat the text is still readable...
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Same pain as when you download a "PNG" and instead of a transparent background PNG it is a JPG with checkerboard background.
Webp is great. Why wouldn't you use webp?
Genuine question, what's great about webp? I must be missing something
It has a really good compression algorithm and can preserve more detail in a smaller filesize.
As a website owner you usually pay for outbound traffic or atleast storage, thus having a smaller file reduces your cost, appart from the benefit that more users are able to load the file.
I use Arch, btw
I don't use Arch, btw (downvotes incomng!)
At some point support for the format will catch up, and we can forget about it. But for now, I'll just continue to grumble
Here's a neat trick: When saving a .webp image file, simply rename it to .jpg, and it will open no problem in the Windows Photos app. Personally, I save all of mine as .webp.jpg, just so I can distinguish them apart from other image types in the future.
while that will work for the majority of images, webp is not just a container for jpeg compression and allows for much more (animated webp for example is the near perfect replacement for animated gif yet very few applications support it).
The big advantage is that webm and webp can use a variety of formats really well and allows you to pick the one most appropriate for your content whilst still having a container format that supports it.
Yeah, i used this trick on Windows, but when i switched to Linux it doesn't work
.webp? Oh great, I get to install Homebrew, search for some package to convert it into a PNG, figure out the command line options and then finally I'll get an usable version of the image.
In case you're actually wondering, its:
brew install webp
dwebp {filename}.webp -o {filename}.png
1.) Download the webp image
2.) Open using paint
3.) Save as png
Now here's a comment worth saving :D
There’s various browser extensions to get around this. Chrome and Firefox both have one that just converts the webp to jpg or png. Just Google “don’t accept webp” browser extension.
didn't realize people had issues with .webp
MacOS must have native support, I don't recall installing anything but they work fine in Preview and Quick Look
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The worst part is why apps doesn't support webp like how they support jpg or png. That's also a widespread image format, there's no reason for them to not support it.
Gif since 1987
Jpg since 1991
Webp since 2010
13 years is a long time in tech.
Now... could we talk about .heic files?
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mate what happened with those ls
Lossy compression?
KDE's Gwenview can actually save/convert WebPs to PNGs, JPEGs, etc.
Firefox can download them, my win10 can preview them but MS Photo cant open them afaik, but luckily there is ImageGlass, an open source image viewer:
I found ImageGlass to be very slow, especially when opening images. It should be snappy. JPEGView, instead, is lightning fast.
Get irfanView. IrfanView can open them and save them as PNG or JPG. I use IrfanView as my default image viewer.
I still fucking hate webp though.
Yep! Listen to the wise words of Bobandy.
IrfanView is a mainstay on my PC since I came across it years ago along with SumatraPDF.
Works fine to open the image in Gimp.
Why? Webp is better than both jpeg and png.
The answer is a couple of comments above your comment
Pretty hit or miss when i open it in illustrator/photoshop.
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