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It's an annoying format that Google made that's proprietary and reinvents the wheel. Had Microsoft done this the tech world would be up in arms. When Google do
by freitzkriesler2 3y ago
It's an annoying format that Google made that's proprietary and reinvents the wheel.
Had Microsoft done this the tech world would be up in arms. When Google does it, it's OK.
I have to add extensions to convert this crap when I want to download images. I hope that Google loses their dominance to Microsoft with AI.
- madars 3y agowebp is not proprietary. There is a patent grant https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/g/webp-discuss/c/W4_j7Tlofv8 https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/g/webp-discuss/c... and reference implementation is BSD-licensed.
- nayuki 3y agoYou might be interested that Microsoft developed JPEG XR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR , https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/jpeg-xr/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/jpeg-xr/ . And in the past, they tried to shove Windows Media Video and Audio down our throats, which are inferior relatives of MPEG-4, AAC, FLAC, etc.
- halJordan 3y agoBut you don't have to add extensions to convert this crap. You do that to yourself. If you quit making your life hard it would be so much easier, but probably less complaining- so i guess that's the trade off.
- tedunangst 3y agoYou do have to handle it though, and rarely when you want to. You click on a jpg link in your browser and save it, but the CDN invisibly converted it to webp. Which the program you want to edit the image in doesn't support. I didn't ask for webp. I didn't try to make this difficult.