Just this week I tried to upload a webp to google drawings (the google drive document for some kind of vector graphics), but google drawings only accepted gif, jpeg, and png. That taught me, that google drawings dosn’t receive any updates any more and probably soon will be killed by google, and also, that webp still isn’t available everywhere.

still have that problem and i hate how much of a pita it is to switch it off in most browsers (that i tried at least)

I feel like even back then, this was a Windows problem I was too Linux to understand.

I have literally never had a problem opening a .webp. By the time my browser started downloading in that format, all my other software (Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc.) already supported it too.

Still pisses me off on the regular, but maybe there’s a trick to fix this that I haven’t learned.

True. I never SMS memes to anyone, so having images download to webp is not a problem.

A week or few ago, I asked about the issue with certain image posts opening in a new tab instead of expanding when I click. It was in a random post affected by the new tab issue and I never got a response, at least I don’t think I did.

Now that you mentioned avif, I double-checked, and sure enough that’s the reason. I don’t know why I didn’t notice.

A while back it happened with images hosted on something called catbox or shitbox whatever it was called. For awhile the images wouldn’t load at all in my browsers because the certificate for that domain was bad. Then for awhile, I suppose after they fixed the cert, they’d open up in a new tab instead of expand. But, it’s been some time since I’ve noticed and I don’t see many/any shitbox/catbox hosted images anymore.

Sort of same, only I don’t have any issues with it on Lemmy, only everywhere else. Anytime I try downloading an image I swear it’s always an avif and the group chat I use doesn’t support avif, so I have to screenshot it real quick if I want to share any memes. Idk if it’s Lemmy putting things as avif, or if there’s a couple people in the shit posting community who exclusively posts avif, but I hate it.

No, it’s a different format underneath.

Occasionally it’ll work, cause an app will use a library that supports webp but forget to add it to the file picker (or deliberately don’t want it) but generally no.

Simply changing the extension wouldn’t work because each image type has a specific header - even changing a .png to .jpg wouldn’t work - and organizes the actual image data in different ways.

The header is what actually identifies the file type. For webp, it’s called the RIFF header and it must be 21 bytes (it’s a standardized specification, btw). For jpeg, the header is only 2 bytes and has the values FF D8. In theory, this means that you could even rename the file to image.zip and, if you opened it in an appropriate program, it would read the header and still render it properly

If we made a list of things you could do, that would be on the list.

If that’s the only thing that changed, the data in the file isn’t changed, it’s still a webp file not a jpg, it’s just mislabeled now. I just tried it, Dolphin will let you do it but throw a dialog telling you it’s not actually going to change the file, just the name. Some systems might be smart enough to recognize the intent and run a conversion program in the background. Feels like an Apple thing to do. Also feels kind of Pythonic.

A lot of image viewing software doesn’t know what to do with the webp format so they’ll try to load it and throw an error.