A pain in the ass. Up next is jpegXL. If it’s backwards compatible with jpeg, great. If it’s not, then it can fuck off too.
Every webp image I’ve wanted to save I just renamed the extension to png and it works fine.
It’s a workaround but doesn’t work if you try to open the image in Photoshop to edit it without the webp plugin.
Renaming an extension does not actually modify the contents of the file. Some software that supports webp may look at the contents and recognize it as webp and load it. But that’s not all software.
It’s a bad practice to do that. It’s like changing a .docx to .pdf and expecting it to be fine.
It’s absolutely not a great thing to do in general, however it does work since the file contents are apparently a modified png. And everything that I used to both look and modify it later including automated CLI level cropping commands seem to think it’s a png.
Since it works and hasn’t broken anything, and nothing I have recognizes the webp extension, seems to be okay for this niche purpose.
I really like WEBP.
It supports transparency, animations, and compression, and seems to look really good even with very strong compression. It’s a shame that, despite it coming out 13 years ago, it’s still barely supported by so much software.
Sounds to me like people need to stop supporting software that doesn’t take the time to update. WEBP is great, and I haven’t run into a single program that doesn’t support it, personally.
It annoys me that Firefox won’t autoplay animated webp, at least ones in Lemmy posts, unless I open a whole new tab just for the fucking .webp
Open with gimp -> export as -> export as png -> export
