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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

fuck webp. in-fact fuck all the new corpo sponsored standards.

there was nothing wrong with png, gif, or jpg.

tinfoil hat time. all the new corpo sponsored web standards exist for one purpose, to control the development of the internet so that the corpo-overlords can continue pumping users for "value".

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Webp wouldn’t be a thing if not for Google using it’s monopoly to push it on people

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You got to at least like avif. Both in lossless and lossy mode it’s better than the formats from the 90s. It’s community run, patent free, faster, higher quality, and well supported.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

what corporate entity submitted the RFC?

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

I mean if that’s your standard you need to drop quite a bit more.

PNG was submitted by Boutell.Com, Inc (now doing payday loans)

GIF was submitted by Compuserve Inc.

JPEG was (in its original form) was by C-Cube Microsystems, Inc

Avif is an open source, royalty free, better format administrated by a non profit.

Companies (including Netflix) should be encouraged to contribute to the community under such standards.

Open source, royalty free, better formats, administrated by a non profit Is the goal.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 10 points 6 hours ago

AVIF is also great! if for some reason you don't like webp because google makes it, AVIF uses AV1 which is an open codec.

it's also much smaller. great for web graphics

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Experimental JPEG-XL support in Firefox (and forks) can be enabled by setting the pref image.jxl.enabled to true in about:config.

https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, let's just hand over even more of the Internet to Google. Great idea

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lolwat. It's an image format, not some snooping -adjacent web tech or something.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

not yet! (/s)

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 22 points 13 hours ago
[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This was definitely accurate at one point, but is not representive of reality today.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

No... No this is still accurate.

[–] BartyDeCanter 7 points 5 hours ago

It’s still my experience most times. I’m always quite surprised when some site that isn’t Google accepts a webp.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 55 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Webp isn’t better. Its support is awful. Geordy would know that.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

What modern software does not support it? Sometimes animated images are only rendered as a static image of the first frame of the animation, but it is fairly universally supported nowadays.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 30 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

This, along with editing, converting is a pain, lots of 3rd party apps, websites, and forms do not support uploading them etc.

It barely has better support, but by a couple of hairs, and only half-assed at best.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

When I started contributing to joinfediversewiki, all my screenshot uploads failed... until I wondered if it was because they were in Webp. Fortunately the site admin added it to the approved formats for me.

Also my (formerly) preferred screenshot tool, Ksnip, doesn't handle Webp.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And yet, surprisingly, I can often get a gif down to a smaller file size and better image quality than a webp file.

Still, there's hope for it yet if it improves!

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 7 points 13 hours ago

I would have to see that to believe it

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Aren't gifs just each individual frame bundled together? So there's no space saving with a gif without reducing resolution

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

GIF uses transparency to overlay a frame over the previous one, so colors for the unchanged pixels can be collapsed to the transparent color to get better compression.

Of course, this is rather primitive compared to anything invented since MPEG-2.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 minutes ago

Huh the more you know

Always thought gif was essentially implemented as a slideshow and that modern codecs implement all the space saving that gif doesn't

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 points 5 hours ago

I think they can be a little more complex than that. When creating a GIF in GIMP, there is a function to "Optimize" which gets rid of redundant pixels that are the exact same on multiple frames (or something like that). Whatever it does, it definitely reduces the final file size. Any time I make an animation that has to be a GIF file for whatever reason, I try to make it in GIMP to make use of that feature.

https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/plug-in-optimize.html

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 12 hours ago
[–] Toes@ani.social 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

avif is the superior format to webp. 💝

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 6 hours ago

That was pretty simple. And even much smaller than the equivalent WebP

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

svg is da way

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

I don't trust webp. I don't like its name.

Look at me! The web will now use my picture standard.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It's pronounced vepp.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You don't enjoy website piss? Why? It's sterile and refreshing!

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

I don't what is worse, warm piss or cold piss.

And I don't wanna know.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Regarding its name: I had no idea until today that the B is silent

WebP (/ˈwɛpi/ WEP-ee)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

[–] Cybersec@piefed.social 9 points 13 hours ago

Oh god, another image file name war? “We pee” love it that’s great, now it’ll get traction for sure, ha.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Will this settle the gif/jif debate once and for all?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Gif is pronounced like gorilla or giraffe or is not hard

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Voyager on Android works, Firefox (and variants) all seem to work.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

What about j2k?

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Still waiting for DjVu support...

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

gifv is not a format. It's just Imgur pretending that a MP4 file is something different.