Yes. This post was intended as ACKCHUALLY bait.

I hooked you GOOD, Mastodon.

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Way to drive engagement! 🤣

@designthinkingcomic Now do the GIF that turns out to be an MP4 and you can't get it to loop on the place you're trying to share it.
@spacehobo Oh god that one drives me fucking MAD.
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Did you upload the comic as a webp?
Either way, I find this very funny.
@silvermoon82 Haha! Whoa that is weird. I have angered the .webp Gods.

@designthinkingcomic @jef

🎵 That’s when I reach for my ffmpeg 🎵

@designthinkingcomic it's this and amp pages all the way down

@wonofone webp for all it's faults at least found an interesting niche.

Not even Google supports AMP anymore.

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Except for Irfanview, of course, which opens just about anything (especially will all plugins installed)

https://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide

IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.

@the5thColumnist @designthinkingcomic Irfanview portable, always in your pocket, ready to handle pretty much everything you encounter.

@designthinkingcomic Genuine question just thrown out there, is WebP compatibility *still* an issue for most people out there as a whole or is it specific software that hasn't added support yet, e.g. big image editors or entire OSes that can't natively preview them (macOS? Windows?)?

It's been a while since I've had anything other than, like, JPGs and PNGs on either Macs or Windows machines in the little time I'm using them at work.

@snep @designthinkingcomic random example, I wanted to add album art to some tracks today using Apple Music on Windows. It errored out on webp.
@directhex @snep @designthinkingcomic out of curiosity, would that even work with their own custom format?
@snep @designthinkingcomic no not really, haven't had any issues with webp. During my work so far. I'm not sure if they maybe struggle to open in the image viewer under windows but nothin too severe

@snep @designthinkingcomic I have Telegram channels for some of my web sites, and WebP doesn't work there. I haven't bothered to set up convert-jpgs-to-webp-on-the-fly systems to use multiple formats, as well-compressed JPGs tend to be smaller than WebP images in any case.

MacOS has no problems working with WebP, all apps I use can handle them just fine. Telegram is the only one that I've seen where it's a problem.

@snep @designthinkingcomic always trouble with those things. it's like DRM for .jpgs or something, terrible.
@snep @designthinkingcomic On Mac, Preview would show it, but not older Safari, which will break many web pages.

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I dunno. WebP images seem to open ok in my browser. Using LibreWolf on Linux Mint 22.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/gallery1

WebP Gallery  |  Google for Developers

Google for Developers
@designthinkingcomic Now make one where .avif enters the room 😵‍💫
The format has been widely used for more than 15 years so at this point it’s your program’s fault
gabbo I'm not sure reply-guying people who don't follow you is going to change hearts and minds here
I need to get better at not replyguying
He's trying to defend the love of his life (webp images)
I totally get the urge, someone is wrong about something you care about and you want to share correct info. But also from their perspective they have something that annoys them, and then someone comes into their mentions to say "actually you're wrong". Now they have two things to be annoyed about and their mind didn't get changed

@designthinkingcomic
Animated avif: "How dare you complain?!"

Did you try animated avif?
I did, and I still use it 'cause it's the better way to have very light and quality animated images.
But very few software and platforms manage it :(

Привет!
Я — картинка.webp
И я, чёрт возьми, нигде не открываюсь!

#перевод

@designthinkingcomic I had someone at work send me a profile photo in this format and I was shocked to see someone using it on purpose
Every browser supports it now, and I also use the format because it is very small and offers good quality.