friends don't let friends use webp
@nicklockwood lossy compression over png's lossless, png doesn't need to be replaced, i hate google
@mavica_again fair enough. I think there's a niche for a format that supports lossy + transparency, since JPEG 2000 never really took off. But then again WebP never really took off either so 🤷♂️
@nicklockwood i do think it's a useful format and it shouldn't be trying to replace png and i viscerally hate every website that has turned my lossless pngs into lossy webps
the issue is less with the format and more with how "web" "developers" started using it, i guess
@nicklockwood it's hard to find fediverse software that doesn't turn every image into webp now, with the exception of some forks, for example
denying webp inbox breaks most of the fediverse's incoming posts etc
@mavica_again I'm assuming that's about saving bandwidth, since end users and their clients can't always be trusted to make good choices about image compression
Before Elmo fired everyone who gave a fuck, some Twitter engineers actually worked with the community to come up with a heuristic to preserve fine details and color palettes for pixel art without folks resorting to tricks like adding single-pixel transparency or animation frames
Maybe the same approach would work here?
@mavica_again for the initiated, what's wrong with WebP?
Is it just the general lack of support that makes it a user-hostile choice, or is there something inherently bad about it as a format? (either legally or technically)