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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by hot_gril on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:27AM (#38655692)
Only if you can accurately detect browser support and serve the PNG instead, which means added complexity. And you have to store both.

Also, if users download your images and use them elsewhere, webp will still be more annoying for them. Though it's not very common that you want them doing that anyway.

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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by nicbn on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:54AM (#38655971)
https://caniuse.com/webp

Any updated (modern) browser should be able to see webp just fine, I'd rather just serve it without a backup plan if I'm planning to have webp in my website.

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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by hot_gril on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:18PM (#38656208)
The browser support for webp is fine, problem is everything else. If you only care about displaying the images (not letting people use them elsewhere), you only use lossless webp, and all your backend infra supports it, then sure.
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