- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.
Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.
whats wrong with it
Try linking one and sending it to someone else. I tried it and the recipient died two days later.
That’s weird, doesn’t it usually take seven?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thering/images/1/1e/Samara_Morgan.v1.webp/revision/latest?cb=20221030003832
jokes aside what is bad with it
There’s some politics involved. Basically, everyone is rallying behind JPEGXL instead of WebP, but Google refuses to support JPEGXL in Chrome. The reasoning they gave is weak, so it’s assumed that they’re just trying to force the format they invented on everyone because they can.
IIRC, performance of the two formats is similar.
“everyone”
why does everyone like jpegxl and why does google care if it’s foss
Exactly why WebP is shit, and Google literally owning everything shouldn’t be normalized.
It’s a format that most major image editors don’t support. Basically, if you wanted to do anything with it, you need to first convert it to a different format. It’s the only format that has this problem.
That’s fair except it’s not the only format that has this problem. There’s JPEG 2000 and AVIF which have even less image editor support.
I had meant to say common format. I’ve never encountered a JPEG 2000.
I’m old enough to remember when the same argument was made for PNG files. It’s a stupid argument.
WEBP is 13 years old at this point and lacks the support that PNG had 3 years into its lifetime. The benefits are marginal, and without platform support it can’t catch on. Do your research before calling someone else’s argument stupid.
I think most people dislike it because Google made it. Google is evil as fuck, but it’s a damn good image format, obviously so since it’s way smaller for the same visuals compared to the older formats, plus it supports transparency. Google is evil but still makes good software sometimes.