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I love how the article implies there's something flawed about webp at the end ... but if you click the link the only "flaw" reported is that webp isn't ubiquito

I love how the article implies there's something flawed about webp at the end ... but if you click the link the only "flaw" reported is that webp isn't ubiquitous enough yet, so some sites don't support it Perfect logic: let's not switch to webp because it's bad. Why is it bad? Not everyone has switched to it yet.

msabalau 1y ago
As an enduser, I hate, hate, hate webp, because I cant' easily use the images in a wide range of ways. Maybe it's vaguely more flexible and compresses well. I don't care. If someone uses it, I despise them.
- mr_toad 1y ago
  > a wide range of ways. I hear this all the time but I have yet to encounter it. Is it just social media and lolcats? Maybe the software I’m using is too uncool to not support it.
frollogaston 1y ago
The lack of support makes me suspicious of it. If even Google Docs finds it too difficult to prioritize webp support, idk if there's some hidden problem with ease of implementation.
Lammy 1y ago
Being a much more complicated format than JPEG (WebP is based on the VP8 video codec) invites a huge attack surface because it requires so much more code to support. On top of that, the fact that 99% of people (even Apple's ImageIO!) use Google's libwebp means any exploit can hit almost everyone all at once. This has actually happened: - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41064 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41064 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41061 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41061 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863 - https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/ https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer...