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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
As someone who sometimes needs a quick and dirty stock image for my work, webp is the bane of my existence. The work computers won't let me visit sites or install programs/extensions to convert the image, and my document processing programs have no fucking clue what to do with the format. There is an option in Microsoft edge to edit image, and it will dump the result as a .png which is the only workaround I've found.
Samir ?
loled at how the name of the Chinese guy is just "generic Chinese name" put into Google Translate
Personal homepage is HTML 2.0 compliant - gold (and it keeps giving, too)
Great content from ages ago
I run Firefox portable with the extension "Save webp as PNG or JPEG". It has a button to copy directly to clipboard in the format of your choice.
So much this. I've completely forgotten about this issue since I've installed that extension.
If you're on Windows you can just open picture in MSPaint, and save it as PNG.
Edit: You might need the WebP Extension though.
Just change the file extension to *.png. Works every time.
Unironically it will work as @[email protected] and a bunch just like him has put in the work to Just Work^TM^
surprised_pikachu.webp.png
Wait till you find out what's inside when you change Office files from .***x to .zip
Why does this even work though? WEBP and PNG are very different file formats yet for some reason this has always worked for me as well. Is windows automatically converting the files? I haven't checked if changing the file extension changes the file size.
I'm working on a project which generates images in multiples sizes, and also converts to WEBP and AVIF.
The difference in file size is significant. It might not matter to you, but it matters to a lot of people.
Here's an example (the filename is the width):
Also, using the <picture></picture> element, if the users' browsers don't support (or block) AVIF/WEBP, the original format is used. No harm in using them.
(I know this is a meme post, but some people are taking it seriously)
I've mentioned this topic in regards to animated images, but don't see as big a reason to push for static formats due to the overall relatively limited benefits other than wider gamut and marginally smaller file size (percentage wise they are significant, but 2KB vs 200KB is paltry on even a terrible connection in the 2000s).
What I really wish is that we could get more browsers, sites, and apps to universally support more modern formats to replace the overly bloated terribly performing and never correctly pronounced animated formats like GIF with something else like AVIF, webm, webp (this was a roughly ~60MB GIF, and becomes a 1MB WEBP with better performance), or even something like APNG...
Besides wider gamut, and better performance, the sizes are actually significant on all but the fastest connections and save sites on both storage and bandwidth at significant scale compared to the mere KB of change that a static modern asset has.
This WEBP is only 800KB but only shows up on some server instances since not every Lemmy host supports embedding them :
Literally just today solved a problem of delivering analytics plots over our internal chat system. The file size limit is 28Kb and I was just getting ready to say screw it, can't be done.
Lo and behold our chat system that doesn't support svg does support webp. Even visually complicated charts come in just below the size limit with webp.
But why webp over jxl
We already have the solution
Because jxl is a bunch of bollocks. There's no way it will gain any support any time soon.
.jxl is the better image format anyway
I feel like jxl is supported even less than webp though
webp is completely supported by browsers I think now.
Websites still get weird about it.
JXL is supported by Safari and ummmmm mobile Safari.
"Surely they must be exaggerating," I thought...
It's worth pointing out that browser support is a tiny, but important, part of overall ecosystem support.
TIFF is the dominant standard for certain hardware and processes for digitizing physical documents, or publishing/printing digital files as physical prints. But most browsers don't bother supporting displaying TIFF, because that's not a good format for web use.
Note also that non-backwards-compatible TIFF extensions are usually what cameras capture as "raw" image data and what image development software stores as "digital negatives."
JPEG XL is trying to replace TIFF at the interface between the physical analog world and the digital files we use to represent that image data. I'm watching this space in particular, because the original web generation formats of JPEG, PNG, and GIF (and newer web-oriented formats like webp and avif) aren't trying to do anything with physical sensors, scans, prints, etc.
Meanwhile, JPEG XL is trying to replace JPEG on the web, with photographic images compressed with much more efficient and much higher quality compression. And it's trying to replace PNG for lossless compression.
It's trying to do it all, so watching to see where things get adopted and supported will be interesting. Apple appears to be going all in on JXL, from browser support to file manager previews to actual hardware sensors storing raw image data in JXL. Adobe supports it, too, so we might start to see full JXL workflows from image capture to postprocessing to digital/web publishing to full blown paper/print publishing.
iPhone 16 supports shooting in JPEG-XL and I expect that will be huge for hardware/processing adoption.
Since we're here and someone may find it useful, I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/
Fuckin why
the situation the meme describes?
It's a format meant for web browsers. If you want your web browser to ignore performance and focus on universally reusable images, I guess. But that's me making leaps not in the "meme"
The funniest thing is that even some of Google's own products don't accept Webp, like Google Voice.
Stop trying to make .webp happen. It’s not going to happen.
Maybe we should try to make it happen harder
They use it on their server side to save data, they don't give a rip if we don't use it. If they wanted us to use it, they'd have cancelled it already.
Lemmy uses webp for profile pics.