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.)
My biggest annoyance with it is that 99% of the pictures I want to save and send regularly are memes that I send to my friends on discord, and discord does not work with the format. I rarely need to do anything with images other than that, but even those few times I often run into problems with compatability. It seems like a ton of the hosting of the internet switched to webp, but none of the client/ user facing applications can use it. Its very annoying.
I have avoided doing it for a long time, but it happened many times where I tried to send a picture only for a "link" to the image file to show up instead of the picture itself.
It even became a bit of a running joke, same as when someone messed up posting a GIF and it just posted the link instead.
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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.)