alt Hacker News> and the abysmal everyday use it gets
Estimates are that 95% of Internet users have a browser that supports WebP and that ~25% of the top million websites serve WebP images. I wouldn't call that abysmal.
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whywhywhywhy • today at 1:07 PM
completely fails the second you want to do anything more than load it on a webpage
Photoshop still won’t open it, MacOS preview opens it but then demands to convert it to tiff when you try to edit it
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hsbauauvhabzb • today at 10:17 AM
My file manager can’t handle them but my browser can.
Edit: and good luck uploading the format to the majority of webforms that aren’t faang.
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dotancohen • today at 10:20 AM
5% of people can't view them, yet 25% of top websites use them?
In what other industry would it be considered acceptable to exclude 5% of visitors/users/clients?
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Great, so I can download it, but then I have to convert it to a different format before half my apps will be able to use it.