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Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of platforms, even image editing don't support webp

[–] force@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't come across a single image or video editor that doesn't support webp nowadays. I use paint.net, krita, aseprite, inkscape, ibis paint x, opentoonz, and davinci resolve, plus libreoffice if you count that, they all support importing/exporting and editing webp just as any other image file format. I'm pretty sure GIMP and Photoshop do too but I don't use them so I can't say for sure

I feel like a majority of people have to go out of their way to make webp an inconvenience in the modern day.

Besides, if it for some reason doesn't work in a specific situation you need it you can just manually change the extension to ".jpeg" or ".png" and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it. But I can guess most people don't actually face a situation like that.

[–] kellyaster@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you can just manually change the extension to “.jpeg” or “.png” and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it

Thank you for the suggestion, but that's not how it works. Changing a file's extension doesn't change the file type; it just changes the name.

[–] force@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

When I take an image file and change its extension from webp to png it converts the binary data, so I imagine your OS' default file manager would do that too. Maybe not tho.

[–] kellyaster@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What OS & version are you using that automatically converts file types when you change the filename via the default file manager interface? I have never heard of this function before.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Some file managers on linux can do this, but it's definitely not a default on most.