• Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Webp is the worst format ever.

    Never mind that:

    • it supports transparency;
    • it can be losslessly OR lossfully compressed;
    • it’s so efficient it can fit ẏ̷̛̀̏̎̇͜ǫ̷̼̰̳̹́̆̍̐͜͝ủ̷͉̱̻̤̬̯̈́ŗ̸̒ ̸̨̟͈̳͍̱̀̏̓m̵̺͎̋́u̴͇̥͍͐̇̀̇͊̌̚͝m̸̢̢͕̻̬͙̒͗̽͋͆̕͝ in less than 2GB;
    • it can be animated;
    • is more than capable of representing 1:1 any GIF image;

    it sucks because the one image viewer I’ve ever had installed by the ubiquitous (= monopolistic) operating system everyone has by default doesn’t support it.

        • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I do expect it to be a matter of time. Typically, you pull some image rendering library into your program, which pulls in a whole bunch of libraries that support the different image formats.
          As such, it’s the job of that intermediary library to support as many formats as possible. If you keep that intermediary library up-to-date, you may get support for new image formats without really doing anything.

          But well, it may take more time for this to happen, for various reasons. One reason is obviously that we already have other image formats that may not be amazing, but they work everywhere, so most people continue to use those.
          Another aspect that may slow adoption down, is that .webp was spear-headed by Google alone. Normally, you get other industry leaders into the boat, to make sure you cover everyone’s use-cases and have somewhat of a commitment for them to integrate it. I assume that Photoshop supports .webp by now, but it probably took relatively long for that to happen, for example.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is this a Windows problem I’m too Linux to understand?

    Seriously, everything on my computer – Firefox, Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc. – supports webp just fine.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    This is MS we’re talking about. Preview and Viewer are probably made by two different teams in different countries, sharing no code, and prohibited from communicating with each other, even if they know about the other’s existence.

    And famously they fired all QAs years ago so there’s nobody to test before releasing.

    • BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I work in big tech and this is my life. I envy anyone who thinks you’re exaggerating, because that means they haven’t experienced the joy of spending weeks trying to track down the team responsible for a bug and then months hassling them to fix it.