I download memes to share them. Messenger does not like webp. It literally won’t allow me to send the image. I then have to edit the image just so I can send it. Now I have two copies of the same meme.
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dan@upvote.au 2 months agoWhat’s wrong with WebP? It’s a modern format with smaller file sizes, and most software supports it.
ninjabard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
[deleted]Baku@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Google docs and sheets don’t support WebP either. Always ironic when they made the fucking format
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Which messenger? Signal and WhatsApp support it.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Just rename it into a .jpg extension instead
Seems to just work for what i need them for ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ive had one or two that didn’t but i could open then in gimp and export that way.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
Just rename it into a .jpg extension instead
Seems to just work for what i need them for ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This usually means the app supports WebP but is doing something dumb like not allowing the WebP file type but not the .webp file extension. If that’s the case, it’s often a one-line code fix.
amanda@aggregatet.org 2 months ago
This happened to me in a web form, but it was with .jpg and .jpeg. I was on a phone.
ninjabard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On mobile?
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
I thought WebP was fixed in Messenger a while back. You mean Facebook Messenger, right? I’ll see if I can figure out what’s up.
ninjabard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. Facebook Messenger. I thought it had been fixed as well. It used to give an icon over the pic in the photo roll signifying it wouldn’t send. Now the icon is gone and I don’t find out until after failing to send it.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
most software supports it
Definitely not my experience
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Good luck using webp in any kind of collaborative diagramming software.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
Why does that software not support modern formats though?
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Maybe because in those scenarios PNG offers sharper images, which is more important than compression when you have complex diagrams. Or because webp is more CPU intensive, and PNG gives better performance when rendering. Or because of CVE-2023-4863.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
PNG offers sharper images, which is more important than compression when you have complex diagrams
WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression. Diagrams should use lossless compression so the image does not lose any quality.
PNG gives better performance when rendering
Images on the web usually aren’t large enough for this to make a significant difference, and it can sometimes be offset by the quicker download time.
because of CVE-2023-4863.
libjpeg and libpng have had a number of CVEs too though.
MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Photoshop only recently supported webp natively. Windows barely supports webp.
Inb4 “have you heard of linux”
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
AFAIK Windows has supported WebP since Windows 10 1809.
MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In what capacity? Because the Photos app does not. Hence ‘barely’.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
The built-in APIs for handling images (GDI+) added WebP support in 1809. This is mentioned in the the documentation for the drawing library in C#/.NET, which is a wrapper around GDI+: …microsoft.com/…/system.drawing.imaging.imageform…
I haven’t tried it in the Photos app (and don’t have a Windows system handy right now to try it out), but I know it works for sure in Paint, which uses GDI+ for image encoding/decoding.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
is “recently” less than 15 hours ago because that’s when the comment was made