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thayne • today at 12:00 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Well, that's a problem with the tools you are using. Tools to work with webp have existed for a long time.


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al_borland • today at 1:36 AM

To not be annoying the tools don't have to just exist somewhere, they need to be ubiquitous. For example, If I'm looking to upload an image as an avatar on a website, will webp be supported? It's unlikely, even if the site itself might ultimately serve up a webp file. So then I'd have to use a tool to convert it to a more ubiquitous format before uploading it, likely doing a bunch of lossy conversion along the way. That's annoying.