Leiryn t1_iubr89t wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:49 AM

Reply to comment by happyscrappy in Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL by leo_sk5

Fuck webp, I always have to rename it to jpeg because a bunch of apps refuse to work with it (notably Google voice)

gurenkagurenda t1_iubsvnb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:04 AM

That has nothing to do with webp specifically. It’s just a typical transition pain for a new format.

FineAunts t1_iuc2eaq wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:38 AM

If you make apps at scale there is a clear advantage of webp. Many of the @2x files we serve get an instant 50% weight reduction with zero noticeable quality loss (as compared to the tweaked jpeg). Most are in the 20-30% range but that's still pretty great. It's like going from ttf to woff2 or gzip to brotli.

I wish it was the standard over jpeg at this point. At least on the consumer/user side of things.

siscorskiy t1_iuc5sa6 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:16 AM

Is this a Shopify thing? I notice a lot of the images I scrape from Shopify pages are resized with names like that appended to their filename

swistak84 t1_iucvvz1 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:14 AM

It's more of an iPhone thing. Or anything else with retina display, for those you can choose to serve higher resolution images then you would normally do at the cost of bandwidth

Yay295 t1_iuecpnk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:10 PM

iPhones use HEIC.