Thats why I built a tool that watches my download folder and converts webp and webm to png and mp4 preserving the original. Its still missing some features but its available on my GitHub for free as OSS
.webp is a good format. It’s Adobe’s fault for not properly supporting it.
What’s its advantages?
Better compression and more features, it’s really nice for reducing website load times
It takes less download but more CPU to unpack it so the loading time depends on your connection and hardware. In extreme cases it may be worse than png.
I noticed this when mass converting images for my site. They’d download super quick, but then take forever to render on my ancient Macbook
Ended up using webp for the first image since it was rendered super fast, and a mix of jpeg/webp/avif for the rest (hidden in a carousel), depending on filesize and how legible text was in each image
didn’t realize people had issues with .webp
MacOS must have native support, I don’t recall installing anything but they work fine in Preview and Quick Look
expired
Gif since 1987
Jpg since 1991
Webp since 201013 years is a long time in tech.
Now… could we talk about .heic files?
Am I the only one that reads .heic like someone vomiting?
Here’s a neat trick: When saving a .webp image file, simply rename it to .jpg, and it will open no problem in the Windows Photos app. Personally, I save all of mine as .webp.jpg, just so I can distinguish them apart from other image types in the future.
while that will work for the majority of images, webp is not just a container for jpeg compression and allows for much more (animated webp for example is the near perfect replacement for animated gif yet very few applications support it).
The big advantage is that webm and webp can use a variety of formats really well and allows you to pick the one most appropriate for your content whilst still having a container format that supports it.
Is animated webp better than .apng? Or is that what it contains?
animated webp allows for video compression it can dramatically reduce file size while also giving the same benefits as apng. It also allows for proper transparency so you don’t have to fiddle with export settings not to have layers overlap and you can use actual alpha values
While animated webp sounds nice, I’d pull an imgur and just use a webm without audio at that point since the compression works really well.
Or could I be completely OOTL and not realise that webm and webp are similar containers and could hold the same video format without sound?
Yeah, i used this trick on Windows, but when i switched to Linux it doesn’t work
I have a firefox extension that I use at least multiple times a day, that lets me select which format to download an image in - from JPGs (with multiple compression options) to PNG and WEBPs.
I’ll update this post with the name when I have access to my computer.
Edit: The extension is called “Save Webp As”! Thanks @[email protected]
Is it “Save webp as extension”? This is what I use. I like it because you can still save as webp if you want, but it pops up with other options.
Yup that’s the one! Apologies as I was away from my computer for a while and couldn’t check earlier.
Why? Webp is better than both jpeg and png.
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