Whenever I do an image search, it seems like most of the results are webp these days. It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png. Meanwhile normie sites seem to be trying to aggressively normalize it as a standard format.
Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying? Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format, or is the object just more shekels for google?
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>>3005
>Whenever I do an image search
Probably because Google has been shilling this file type hard, since Google developed webp.
>It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
Ikr. I have to do the same thing every time I want to post one here, usually because I got it from search or from discord (which accepts and embeds webps).
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Well, according to Google:
>WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
So allegedly, it compresses well, like a jpeg, while still allowing for transparency, like a PNG, which could hypothetically make it a decent "universal format".
There's probably some macroeconomic logic behind Google wanting this to be widespread. I can't say what Google's actual motives are, but I suspect that it's more shekels in their pockets.
>Whenever I do an image search
Probably because Google has been shilling this file type hard, since Google developed webp.
>It's a pain in the ass because chan boards don't accept them as uploads, so I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
Ikr. I have to do the same thing every time I want to post one here, usually because I got it from search or from discord (which accepts and embeds webps).
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Well, according to Google:
>WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
So allegedly, it compresses well, like a jpeg, while still allowing for transparency, like a PNG, which could hypothetically make it a decent "universal format".
There's probably some macroeconomic logic behind Google wanting this to be widespread. I can't say what Google's actual motives are, but I suspect that it's more shekels in their pockets.
>>3005
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Yes, it is about the file size. Google wanted to reduce the bandwidth and WEBP gives reductions of around 30%.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compression?hl=en
>Does this stupid image format serve any purpose other than to be useless and annoying?
Yes, it is about the file size. Google wanted to reduce the bandwidth and WEBP gives reductions of around 30%.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compression?hl=en
>>3005
>I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
You can use imagemagick to quickly convert files on the command line. There are many scripts on the net that make that process automatic
>Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format
No,however, it's an open format, and libwebp is released under a permissive BSD liscense. But so is libpng and libjpeg
>I have to take an extra step to open them in GIMP and export them as png
You can use imagemagick to quickly convert files on the command line. There are many scripts on the net that make that process automatic
>Is there some technical reason why the internet would need a new, proprietary image format
No,however, it's an open format, and libwebp is released under a permissive BSD liscense. But so is libpng and libjpeg