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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by prmoustache on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:05AM (#44308383)
I am pretty sure webp is supported everywhere nowadays. I think it is just inertia.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by chownie on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:12AM (#44308425)
It isn't universal, my phone gallery doesn't support webp at all by default and the windows gallery only supports non-animating webp from what I can tell?
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by 7bit on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:35AM (#44308597)
My smartphone camera does not output webp and so does my professional Nikon.

As long as these two major sources of pictures stay on JPEG, I will too. Simply because that's all for subjective and completely debatable reasons.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by prmoustache on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:45AM (#44308667)
To me what cameras support as an output is irrelevant. On a pro camera you generally use the raw files as a default format. What is important is the formats you can export to / manipulate afterwards for publication/exchange.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by reaperducer on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:58PM (#44312842)
To me

Not everyone is you.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by xeromal on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:52AM (#44309461)
When I download a photo to send to my family webp always causes some kind of problem so I end up screenshotting it
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by schmidtleonard on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:27AM (#44309711)
Always always always -- and it's often multiple problems, where the filesystem preview generators don't support it or don't support it over a network or the social media used by the other person doesn't support it (often egregiously so, where an unrecognized drop bubbles up to browser scope and blasts the page you were on) or there's a weird problem with a site/app that is supposed to support it, such as it turns into a black box.

Support for webp is still so rough that I have to wonder what one's ecosystem must look like for it to be seamless. Maybe if you are a googler and your phone/computer/browser use entirely google software and ditto for your friends and your friends friends and your spouses? Maybe?

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:10AM (#44310062)
To my knowledge, not even every Google product supports it, but I have not verified support myself.

I blame Google for pushing it, but I also blame every third-party product for not supporting it, when it is mostly free to do so (I'm sure all of them internally use libraries to decode images instead of rolling their own code).

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by prmoustache on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#44310866)
I think it works better in a totally open source ecosystem. I can share webp pics to my daughters via xmpp for example regardless if I am on my smartphone (conversations) or desktop (gajim)
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