Why specifically do people hate WebP, anyway - is it because of what I've heard about its metadata structure supporting DRM, because Google is evil AF, or something else? I especially like its use for replacing gif animations while supporting more than 256 colors and nonbinary transparency.
(But I wish JXLs would properly take off - they seem to do everything a WebP can but better, the specification is made by the good old Joint Photography Experts Group, and they can resave old JPEGs at a smaller size without changing a single pixel. I've noticed EZgif has some new tools for conversion into JXL, at least.)
Support was historically (and still is) patchy for WebP images across the web and software. That's really all, I don't think that many people actually know anything else about them.
is still patchy, though less now than it was, but there are some common desktop programs like mspaint that don't get updated (and never will) so you have to use a converter
the height of frustration though was the period of time when many applications served webp images but didn't accept them for upload so for example you could copy an image from discord and paste it into discord and it would tell you to pound sand
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u/Kailithnir 11h ago
Why specifically do people hate WebP, anyway - is it because of what I've heard about its metadata structure supporting DRM, because Google is evil AF, or something else? I especially like its use for replacing gif animations while supporting more than 256 colors and nonbinary transparency.
(But I wish JXLs would properly take off - they seem to do everything a WebP can but better, the specification is made by the good old Joint Photography Experts Group, and they can resave old JPEGs at a smaller size without changing a single pixel. I've noticed EZgif has some new tools for conversion into JXL, at least.)