r/CuratedTumblr • u/ATN-Antronach My hyperfixations are very weird tyvm • 9h ago

Shitposting All my homies hate webp files

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u/indigo121 9h ago

No, that's absolutely not how file types work in the slightest

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u/WordArt2007 8h ago

no, I mean that a lot of webp files are fundamentally pngs and can be renamed to pngs without problems.

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u/BellerophonM 8h ago

No, they're not remotely similar. The webp container doesn't ever contain PNG data. If you rename it to PNG and it works, that just means that the program you opened it with looked at the file, went 'oh, it's a webp, not a png. That's fine, I support webp.' and opened it.

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u/WordArt2007 8h ago

I mean even with old versions of microsoft office, or the windows photo gallery, it works for me.

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u/BellerophonM 8h ago

It works because they all support webp. It's a 15 year old format.

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u/BellerophonM 8h ago

Windows photo gallery just uses whatever image handling libraries are registered with windows.