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0 pointsbrucethemoose22y ago0 comments

None of this stopped Google's push for WebP or AVIF.

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Right, WebP was almost certainly a mistake in hindsight. Whatever advantages it had weren't worth a decade of ecosystem fragmentation. Isn't learning from mistakes and not repeating them a good thing?

I don't think AVIF is a good example of this though. All major browser makers were members of the consortium that created AVIF.

brucethemoose2OP2y ago

On the contrary, the webp push didn't really hurt anything... there were (IIRC) no major exploits related to it, and it sees some use. I wouldn't say it was a mistake.

But it was a tremendous amount of effort and promotion on Google's end for a relatively narrow format.

TeaDude2y ago

I would seriously disagree. Plenty of CMSes switched all their photos to webp resulting in a huge loss in quality.

mschuster912y ago

Google has enough moat via the Chrome, Chrome-derivative browser and Youtube client marketshare to push through a new format virtually everywhere outside the Apple ecosystem.

doublepg232y ago

Yet WebP support is still pretty dreadful.

chungy2y ago

Dreadful where? In this day and age, WebP is supported by every browser, I can browse them comfortably in my file manager and basically every image-related program can open and edit them (I'm running GNOME on Arch). Where is it lacking?

I'm not a fan of WebP, mind, but the idea that support for it is dreadful is strange to me.

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