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Also, AVIF has support for live photos and animations. WebP afaik has a more limited feature set.

dheera 6y ago
I still use JPEG because I've seen iPhones in the wild that didn't support my WEBP graphics. Thanks Apple for being behind the times.
- BenTheElder 6y ago
  This should actually finally be fixed as iOS 14 rolls out, of course there's still IE ... https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/ https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/ https://caniuse.com/?search=webp https://caniuse.com/?search=webp
  - foepys 6y ago
    Internet Explorer is officially unsupported by Microsoft. Nobody should write anything new with support for IE.
    - folmar 6y ago
      Microsoft claims otherwise: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-expl... _Internet Explorer is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed._ Some of their sites are like Office365 will drop support, but only on 2021-08-17.
  - hannob 6y ago
    So after several years of ignoring a better file format apple will start supporting it when it's already being deprecated by an even better format?
- deleted 6y ago
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- qwerty456127 6y ago
  By the way, doesn't Windows still open WebP in a browser rather than in a picture viewer?
  - judge2020 6y ago
    The Windows "Photos" app doesn't support webp, at least not without an extension, so it doesn't associate the file extension with the app. Chrome can display these photos, so it registers the webp file extension.
    - qwerty456127 6y ago
      That's it - webp isn't treated as a first-class picture file format even on Windows. You can hardly expect Apple being more progressive this way.
  - Lammy 6y ago
    https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm#UpdatedPlugins https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm#UpdatedPlugins :)
    - qwerty456127 6y ago
      Or https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ - slightly less (yet sufficiently) powerful but looks better.
- astrange 6y ago
  WebP was a bad idea so it's good to not support it. It was released years too early, since they started the incompatible VP9/10 right after.
  - zodiakzz 6y ago
    Erm. What kind of logic is that? Are you from a parallel universe where time machines exist?
    - astrange 6y ago
      They should not have released it without a much longer open comment period, if they expected anyone else to implement it. VP8 had barely just come out of hiding from a private company and hadn't been reviewed. I have known the author of WebP (he previously worked on XviD) and I'm pretty sure it was his pet project.
ghjuuhhhy 6y ago
Does it auto-play? Can it replace gif?
- afavour 6y ago
  Any muted video can already auto play, irrespective of format.
  - chrismorgan 6y ago
    This is not true. Firefox readily supports blocking all video autoplay (Permissions → Autoplay has three choices: Allow Audio and Video; Block Audio; Block Audio and Video), which I gladly use. And I really wish animated images were treated the same, because it’s a bug that they’re not, but a well-entrenched one that’s nigh-impossible to fix.
    - oehtXRwMkIs 6y ago
      Idk, as a user blocking all autoplay sounds great to me.
      - chrismorgan 6y ago
        Thatʾs what I said. I was correcting the parent comment that said that you couldnʾt block autoplay of muted videos. I block all video autoplay, and wish I could block animated image autoplay also.
      - folmar 6y ago
        This is the default, but some media sites have made autoplay videos _the_ next-gen whole page popups, so I gladly switched to block all. It also saves a lot of bandwidth.
  - ehsankia 6y ago
    Maybe this is a stupid request, but I'd like <img> (or maybe the newer <picture> tag) to take a video but with autoplay=true, loop=true, muted=true and controls=false when given a video source
markdog12 6y ago
And 10-bit color.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  Only 10bpc, no provision for better, like PQ ?

I still use JPEG because I've seen iPhones in the wild that didn't support my WEBP graphics. Thanks Apple for being behind the times.

BenTheElder 6y ago
This should actually finally be fixed as iOS 14 rolls out, of course there's still IE ... https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/ https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/ https://caniuse.com/?search=webp https://caniuse.com/?search=webp
- foepys 6y ago
  Internet Explorer is officially unsupported by Microsoft. Nobody should write anything new with support for IE.
  - folmar 6y ago
    Microsoft claims otherwise: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-expl... _Internet Explorer is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed._ Some of their sites are like Office365 will drop support, but only on 2021-08-17.
- hannob 6y ago
  So after several years of ignoring a better file format apple will start supporting it when it's already being deprecated by an even better format?
deleted 6y ago
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qwerty456127 6y ago
By the way, doesn't Windows still open WebP in a browser rather than in a picture viewer?
- judge2020 6y ago
  The Windows "Photos" app doesn't support webp, at least not without an extension, so it doesn't associate the file extension with the app. Chrome can display these photos, so it registers the webp file extension.
  - qwerty456127 6y ago
    That's it - webp isn't treated as a first-class picture file format even on Windows. You can hardly expect Apple being more progressive this way.
- Lammy 6y ago
  https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm#UpdatedPlugins https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm#UpdatedPlugins :)
  - qwerty456127 6y ago
    Or https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ - slightly less (yet sufficiently) powerful but looks better.
astrange 6y ago
WebP was a bad idea so it's good to not support it. It was released years too early, since they started the incompatible VP9/10 right after.
- zodiakzz 6y ago
  Erm. What kind of logic is that? Are you from a parallel universe where time machines exist?
  - astrange 6y ago
    They should not have released it without a much longer open comment period, if they expected anyone else to implement it. VP8 had barely just come out of hiding from a private company and hadn't been reviewed. I have known the author of WebP (he previously worked on XviD) and I'm pretty sure it was his pet project.

ghjuuhhhy 6y ago

Does it auto-play? Can it replace gif?

afavour 6y ago
Any muted video can already auto play, irrespective of format.
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  This is not true. Firefox readily supports blocking all video autoplay (Permissions → Autoplay has three choices: Allow Audio and Video; Block Audio; Block Audio and Video), which I gladly use. And I really wish animated images were treated the same, because it’s a bug that they’re not, but a well-entrenched one that’s nigh-impossible to fix.
  - oehtXRwMkIs 6y ago
    Idk, as a user blocking all autoplay sounds great to me.
    - chrismorgan 6y ago
      Thatʾs what I said. I was correcting the parent comment that said that you couldnʾt block autoplay of muted videos. I block all video autoplay, and wish I could block animated image autoplay also.
    - folmar 6y ago
      This is the default, but some media sites have made autoplay videos _the_ next-gen whole page popups, so I gladly switched to block all. It also saves a lot of bandwidth.
- ehsankia 6y ago
  Maybe this is a stupid request, but I'd like <img> (or maybe the newer <picture> tag) to take a video but with autoplay=true, loop=true, muted=true and controls=false when given a video source

markdog12 6y ago

And 10-bit color.

BlueTemplar 6y ago
Only 10bpc, no provision for better, like PQ ?