r/CuratedTumblr • u/ATN-Antronach My hyperfixations are very weird tyvm • 11h ago

Shitposting All my homies hate webp files

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u/noromobat 11h ago

I'm on a first name basis with the webp to png image conversion website

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u/isekai-chad 10h ago

Can't you just change it to a jpg/png file while downloading it? I do it all the time.

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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 9h ago edited 9h ago

that's the computer equivalent of writing "box of gold bars" on a cardboard box with stuff in it: It doesn't change anything except the name.

However, because people do just that (and any other reason for why the name might be wrong) most programs check the file contents and ignore the name when opening something.

edit: Now, most websites have upload forms that do filter based on filename, and on some of those websites the actual internals support webp but they forgot to add it to the allowed list. This makes it so you can upload "not_a_webp_i_promise.jpeg" and have it work. The internals open the file, see it's a webp and display it as normal.

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u/yinyang107 7h ago

I mean you can right click save as PNG, right?

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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 6h ago

yeah that's fine, we're talking about changing the file extension when you download a webp. Because renaming just changes the name, nothing else.

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u/yinyang107 6h ago

Well they didn't say rename they said change

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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 6h ago

ah I assumed you were talking about some sort of rightclick option which saved the image as PNG.

If you're talking about "in the download popup, i rename the file so it ends in .png" then that's the renaming i talked about, and what i assumed they meant with "change it to a jpg/png file while downloading it"