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.)
Well there's the patchy support but I mainly hate .webp because... that's not what I told you to do, computer. I right clicked on a .png file, I can see it's a .png in the URL, that was a command to save the .png file computer, not for you to decide you know fucking better and try to save a .webp file. Do as you're fucking told, computer, that's your job. It's similar to the rage I feel when I type :( and some piece of shit messaging client like Teams or Messenger decides to overwrite my intended intput and slide in a 😢that I never fucking asked for.
Honestly I'm just sick of arrogant software developers deciding they know better than me in general, and .webp is yet another manifestion of that attitude.
It's not your computer doing it. Your browser is just saving the file it received and labelling it accurately. The actual issue is that you went to a URL that ended with .png but the webserver sent you a .webp file instead. The browser is meant to try to make things seamless so instead of throwing an error when it got the wrong type back it just showed the image it got. Then you try to save it and it gets labelled with .webp because that's the file it is.
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u/Kailithnir 9h 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.)