• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    Really? What does it add that isn’t already done better by other formats? WebP is just Google having not-invented-here syndrome.

    • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      If memory serves, one of the main selling point that was presented was that WebP was able to compress an image better while retaining more visually relevant information than JPEG.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        It has better compression than libjpeg, but that’s not due to the file format. There are other JPEG libraries that give similar or slightly better results than libwebp.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Just one thing is the ability to show animated images without being absolutely shit, like gifs.

      Gifs animations have next to non optimisation and each frame is just another full image. And their colour is very bad.

      • voxel@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        png fully supports animations (great for short animations but as it’s not a video format file size explodes exponentially as you make animations longer and the resolution larger. it’s good enough as a replacement for typical jifs tho)

        • lud@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          You could do that and some websites use mp4s instead of gifs. I believe imgur calls their peudo gifs “gifv” which is actually an mp4 (or maybe webm/p) with a bit of trickery.

          The problem with using mp4s is that they don’t normally loop like you would expect a gif to do.

          They also get a playback bar and such by default, many browsers also block auto playback of videos.