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> If you want to stop progress for the least technically inclined to accept you will stop all progress for ever. This is a strawman, at no point am I or would
by lukeramsden 6y ago
> If you want to stop progress for the least technically inclined to accept you will stop all progress for ever.
This is a strawman, at no point am I or would I ever claim this is a good idea.
At what point is progress too much progress? Why can't we also balance these things with backwards compatibility, interoperability, accessibility, and other such things?
> least technically inclined
How many people actually know what WebP is, as opposed to thinking its some sort of bug with google or their browser? The least technically minded are more than a majority of users, more like the vast majority. Is their usage not valued?
- seba_dos1 6y agoOnce WebP starts to get used more and more and people will stumble on issues with *.webp files they have no idea what to do with, their OSes and tools that they use will start to handle WebP files and the users will eventually learn what it is the same way they learned what JPEG is in the past. I don't know where the line of "too much progress" is, but you need to start that feedback loop somewhere.