- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.
WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…
It had such a knowledge of the user’s needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.
The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90’s, which eventually, of course, they did.
Unfortunately, we didn’t teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.
Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
Does it? I downloaded this post from Liftoff, it’s a jpg.
At least my instance does. You’re right, this post is hosted on .world and is a jpg.
I checked https://sopuli.xyz/ local and saw a bunch of jpeg and png, no webp?
Here’s just a few posts I’ve made where the image became webp after upload:
https://sopuli.xyz/post/715867 https://sopuli.xyz/post/1045471 https://sopuli.xyz/post/1045513 https://sopuli.xyz/post/1045814 https://sopuli.xyz/post/761239 https://sopuli.xyz/post/782697 https://sopuli.xyz/post/841604
I’m not imagining this. Were you checking posts where the image host in fact is the isntance, and not somewhere else?