Cmd+shift+4 is now the only way to grab an image out of a browser. Which is annoying.
It has made my life needlessly more complicated. I wish it would go away.
Maybe if browsers auto converted when you dragged ann image out of the browser window I wouldn’t care, but when I see webp… I hate.
Just drop the offending image onto the icon in the dock.
Also, I just checked and Powerpoint has no problem dropping in a webp image. Gimp opens it just fine. You are right that web forums are often well behind the times on this.
If he's using ⌘⇧4 to take a screenshot, he probably isn't going to open it in Microsoft Paint.
I once edited Firefox config to make it pretend to not support WebP, and the only site that broke was YouTube.
bin/webp2png:
#!/bin/bash
dwebp "$1" -o "${1%%.webp}".pngWindows didn't use to show .jpgs in the window explorer. I know becase I wrote a tool to generate thumbnail HTML pages to include on archive CDs of photos.
To solve this problem, some format has to "win" and get adopted everywhere. That format could be webp, but it will take 3-10 years before everything supports it. It's not just the OS showing it in it's file viewer. It's it's preview app supporting it. It's every web site that lets you upload an image (gmail/gmaps/gchat/facebook/discord/messenger/slack/your bank/apartment-rental-companies, etc..etc..etc..) I just takes forever to get everyone to upgrade.
WebP gets pushed into your series of tubes without your consent, and the browser that you're most likely to use to view them just happens to be made by the same company that invented the codec. It's DivX and Real Media all over again.
The last major browser to add support was Safari 16 and that was released on September 12, 2022. I see pretty much no one on browsers older than Safari 16.4 in metrics on websites I run.
With one format you get decent filesize, transparency, and animation which makes things much simpler than doing things like conditionally producing gifs vs jpegs.
I can't think of any on my Fedora desktop for instance.
Another one I recently interacted with are video backgrounds for zoom. Those apparently can only be jpeg, not even png
See various charts. For example, this table:
https://res.cloudinary.com/cloudinary-marketing/images/f_aut...
For decoding,
Webp - ~70Mpx/s,
jpeg - 100 to 300 Mpx/s
Jpeg xl - 115 to 163
Avif (single thread) - 32 to 37
Avif (multithread) - 90 to 110
That's such a weak argument. If I was an indie game developer, I would use whatever obscure format would offer me the most benefit, since I control the pipeline from the beginning (raw TIFF/TGA/PNG/... files) to the end (the game that needs to have a decoder and will uncompress it into GPU memory). 20 minutes extra build-time on the dev machine is irrelevant when I can save hundreds of MBs.
However, that is not the benchmark for a format widely used on the internet. Encoding times multiply, as does the need to search for specialized software, and literally everyone else needs to support the format to be able to view those files.