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>The issue was lack of adoption - it never took hold due to Apple not adopting it in their ecosystem It's not just Apple, webp files can't even be opened by Ph
by whywhywhywhy 6y ago
>The issue was lack of adoption - it never took hold due to Apple not adopting it in their ecosystem
It's not just Apple, webp files can't even be opened by Photoshop. You're basically making proprietary Chrome image files if you actually use that format.
- ryukafalz 6y agoEhh... Firefox can open them just fine, as can GIMP, as can (apparently) my OS's image thumbnailer. (Though oddly enough not my OS's image viewer.) Support isn't universal, but it's certainly not a proprietary Chrome format.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoAlmost every computing app in the world supports JPG,PNG and GIF. Together we could only name 3 apps that can open webp and only one of those is an editor. Shaking my head as to why this format has any support at all.
- Grue3 6y agoGIMP is supported on every practically usable operating system and can edit animated webp just as well as gifs.
- FalconSensei 6y agoBut most people use photoshop already
- Grue3 6y agoMost people? Given how much it costs? I doubt it, or Adobe would be the company with the highest valuation in the world.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoDoesn't matter how many platforms it's on it's still one app. Until webp works everywhere then the web shouldn't be polluted with this proprietary Google Chrome image format.
- eitland 6y agoWhy is this?
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