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I am pretty sure webp is supported everywhere nowadays. I think it is just inertia.

chownie 1y ago
It isn't universal, my phone gallery doesn't support webp at all by default and the windows gallery only supports non-animating webp from what I can tell?
7bit 1y ago
My smartphone camera does not output webp and so does my professional Nikon. As long as these two major sources of pictures stay on JPEG, I will too. Simply because that's all for subjective and completely debatable reasons.
- prmoustache 1y ago
  To me what cameras support as an output is irrelevant. On a pro camera you generally use the raw files as a default format. What is important is the formats you can export to / manipulate afterwards for publication/exchange.
  - reaperducer 1y ago
    To me Not everyone is you.
xeromal 1y ago
When I download a photo to send to my family webp always causes some kind of problem so I end up screenshotting it
- schmidtleonard 1y ago
  Always always always -- and it's often multiple problems, where the filesystem preview generators don't support it or don't support it over a network or the social media used by the other person doesn't support it (often egregiously so, where an unrecognized drop bubbles up to browser scope and blasts the page you were on) or there's a weird problem with a site/app that is supposed to support it, such as it turns into a black box. Support for webp is still so rough that I have to wonder what one's ecosystem must look like for it to be seamless. Maybe if you are a googler and your phone/computer/browser use entirely google software and ditto for your friends and your friends friends and your spouses? Maybe?
  - graealex 1y ago
    To my knowledge, not even every Google product supports it, but I have not verified support myself. I blame Google for pushing it, but I also blame every third-party product for not supporting it, when it is mostly free to do so (I'm sure all of them internally use libraries to decode images instead of rolling their own code).
    - prmoustache 1y ago
      I think it works better in a totally open source ecosystem. I can share webp pics to my daughters via xmpp for example regardless if I am on my smartphone (conversations) or desktop (gajim)

It isn't universal, my phone gallery doesn't support webp at all by default and the windows gallery only supports non-animating webp from what I can tell?

7bit 1y ago

My smartphone camera does not output webp and so does my professional Nikon. As long as these two major sources of pictures stay on JPEG, I will too. Simply because that's all for subjective and completely debatable reasons.

prmoustache 1y ago
To me what cameras support as an output is irrelevant. On a pro camera you generally use the raw files as a default format. What is important is the formats you can export to / manipulate afterwards for publication/exchange.
- reaperducer 1y ago
  To me Not everyone is you.

xeromal 1y ago

When I download a photo to send to my family webp always causes some kind of problem so I end up screenshotting it

schmidtleonard 1y ago
Always always always -- and it's often multiple problems, where the filesystem preview generators don't support it or don't support it over a network or the social media used by the other person doesn't support it (often egregiously so, where an unrecognized drop bubbles up to browser scope and blasts the page you were on) or there's a weird problem with a site/app that is supposed to support it, such as it turns into a black box. Support for webp is still so rough that I have to wonder what one's ecosystem must look like for it to be seamless. Maybe if you are a googler and your phone/computer/browser use entirely google software and ditto for your friends and your friends friends and your spouses? Maybe?
- graealex 1y ago
  To my knowledge, not even every Google product supports it, but I have not verified support myself. I blame Google for pushing it, but I also blame every third-party product for not supporting it, when it is mostly free to do so (I'm sure all of them internally use libraries to decode images instead of rolling their own code).
  - prmoustache 1y ago
    I think it works better in a totally open source ecosystem. I can share webp pics to my daughters via xmpp for example regardless if I am on my smartphone (conversations) or desktop (gajim)