The main advantage of webp is that it has good lossy compression, which makes it great for websites that show tens or hundreds of images on a single page
If you’ve seen a picture on Lemmy, you’ve almost certainly seen a WebP. A fair bit of software – most egregiously from Microsoft – refuses to decode them still, but every major browser has supported WebP for years and since superior data efficiency compared to JPG/PNG means is already very widely used on the web. Bandwidth is not that cheap.
I’ve never heard of webP. Looked it up. Not impressed. Sticking with png.
Who would want to use a format named web-pee
Web-pee is stored in the web-balls
The main advantage of webp is that it has good lossy compression, which makes it great for websites that show tens or hundreds of images on a single page
I always used PNG where I would have used GIF. Other than that I use JPG still. I’m guessing webp is more on the JPG side of things than the GIF side?
It can do both, lossiness is toggleable.
If you’ve seen a picture on Lemmy, you’ve almost certainly seen a WebP. A fair bit of software – most egregiously from Microsoft – refuses to decode them still, but every major browser has supported WebP for years and since superior data efficiency compared to JPG/PNG means is already very widely used on the web. Bandwidth is not that cheap.