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Yay! Yet another image format that I can't open in Preview, if I save it to my hard drive. Webp may be great for displaying in a web page, but it's TFU if I sa

Yay! Yet another image format that I can't open in Preview, if I save it to my hard drive. Webp may be great for displaying in a web page, but it's TFU if I save it to my hard drive and try to view it with default viewing or editing software. It may not be a proprietary format, but it might as well be.

jimktrains2 12y ago
What image formats are you hitting that Preview (I'm guessing you're on a Mac?) won't open? BTW: gthumb opens it A-OK. So, maybe the issue isn't the openness of the format, but the openness of your platform?
- mitchty 12y ago
  Openness of your platform? God could we get any more passive aggressive with this open source bullshit? Honestly this kind of crap is like doing grade school all over again. Grow up already, does windows support webm/webp natively? Nope, needs plugins. Webp is in a lot of the same boat as webm legally. It may be "open", whatever the fuck that means anymore, but that doesn't make it patent free or not needing of any licensing concerns. VP8/9/etc... aren't some public domain web format. Even webm infringed on H264 patents as of 2013. Do you really think that is an encouraging thing for lawyers of companies with legal liability to want to risk?
  - clarry 12y ago
    > Even webm infringed on H264 patents as of 2013 Where's your proof?
timothyb89 12y ago
It hardly seems fair to reject the format simply because Apple hasn't added support for it to their image viewer. At least here my desktop environment happily displayed the saved image with its built-in image viewer (Gwenview). I'll admit that support for the format isn't perfect, but at least in your case it can be remedied pretty easily with a quick search [1]. That said, format adoption has to start somewhere. It'd be pretty sad if we were still using GIFs for all of our lossless images because PNGs were never allowed to catch on before they could become universally supported. [1]: https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook
- zanny 12y ago
  Thats odd, I have Gwenview 4.14.2 and qt 4.8.6, and webp doesn't resolve properly. Rekonq can't open it either, but Kolourpaint can and Krita cannot. Is webp added in qt5?
jrochkind1 12y ago
yet another? What others are there on the web? I'm surprised preview doesn't do WebP, that's too bad.

jimktrains2 12y ago

What image formats are you hitting that Preview (I'm guessing you're on a Mac?) won't open? BTW: gthumb opens it A-OK. So, maybe the issue isn't the openness of the format, but the openness of your platform?

mitchty 12y ago
Openness of your platform? God could we get any more passive aggressive with this open source bullshit? Honestly this kind of crap is like doing grade school all over again. Grow up already, does windows support webm/webp natively? Nope, needs plugins. Webp is in a lot of the same boat as webm legally. It may be "open", whatever the fuck that means anymore, but that doesn't make it patent free or not needing of any licensing concerns. VP8/9/etc... aren't some public domain web format. Even webm infringed on H264 patents as of 2013. Do you really think that is an encouraging thing for lawyers of companies with legal liability to want to risk?
- clarry 12y ago
  > Even webm infringed on H264 patents as of 2013 Where's your proof?

timothyb89 12y ago

It hardly seems fair to reject the format simply because Apple hasn't added support for it to their image viewer. At least here my desktop environment happily displayed the saved image with its built-in image viewer (Gwenview). I'll admit that support for the format isn't perfect, but at least in your case it can be remedied pretty easily with a quick search [1]. That said, format adoption has to start somewhere. It'd be pretty sad if we were still using GIFs for all of our lossless images because PNGs were never allowed to catch on before they could become universally supported. [1]: https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook

zanny 12y ago
Thats odd, I have Gwenview 4.14.2 and qt 4.8.6, and webp doesn't resolve properly. Rekonq can't open it either, but Kolourpaint can and Krita cannot. Is webp added in qt5?

jrochkind1 12y ago

yet another? What others are there on the web? I'm surprised preview doesn't do WebP, that's too bad.