I’ve only noticed this in the past few days. Not sure if it’s a new issue, but I feel I wasn’t getting this before last week. (Eta: I’m on the latest update) Most Lemmy image links in comments are doing this now.
Sorry if it’s been posted already; I tried searching and didn’t see anything.
Thank you for all your hard work – I LOVE Voyager! ❤️
Example:
webm image
Those aren’t images but videos. “webp” is an image format. Nowadays webms should be supported by Safari, though. Do you have a link so people can check what’s going on?
I think they’ve mostly been reaction gifs. It’s always been when people respond with [image] like this:
e: it links to this: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/75284597-e426-4ce3-8446-c1b69dc06627.webm which for me is the webm download screen.
Note that the thumbnail displays fine. (Eta and I just noticed when I link it, the thumbnail also displays, though I can’t view the image.).
eta: sorry for all the edits, but I’m not trying to open things in Safari; not sure if that’s what you meant. This is all within Voyager . A few images open fine, but most now show this page instead. I don’t know whether the Voyager viewer is using the Safari api to show these images?
I’m guessing Lemmy is now converting GIFs to WEBMs to save space, then.
Trouble is, I just tried it on my end and yeah, Safari won’t open it. VLC can, however. I guess it means Lemmy apps will need to add a webm library now.
Edit: just saw your edit. I’m mentioning Safari because clearly Voyager was trying to open the webm using the in-app browser and not natively. Meaning Voyager doesn’t know how to deal with this format.
Weird. It’s working for me.
Oh, probably because I’m on Android. It’s opening in chrome.
It might be the way different Lemmy clients render links. I’m on Voyager for iOS.
E: Oh wait, I thought I was in a different thread, sorry. I’m daft.
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