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This is fi- notices .webp, flips table
Why do so many folks dislike webp? I really have no strong feelings towards it one way or the other
JPEG-XL is better, for one, if we are talking still images, and for two, webp is just one more instance of Google forcing a preference for their own technology over others.
They refuse to implement JPEG-XL support similar to how they stripped Miracast out of Pixel devices so you can only cast to Chromecast devices unless you root your phone and put on LineageOS, which has brought back Miracast.
Things like webp are Google trying to do an end-run around web standards with the intent of allowing Google, the company, to be the final arbiter of web standards instead of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).
People who hate webp are most likely people who hate Google's quest to dominate the web and be the arbiter of standards.
Ah well that's certainly fair enough, I had no idea it's a Google-encumbered format.
Not sure I've ever "voluntarily" converted something to webp. Many Lemmy instances' pict-rs setups seem to use it, my home instance sopuli.xyz obviously being one of them, which I guess is a sort of a funny choice considering