That'd just be overall worse, it'd never be smaller than a comparable JPEG image, and it wouldn't allow for any compression/quality benefits.

No, it's a new format remember?
So TLS, maybe

But that’s not got anything to do with quality. That’s compression size

But for most images (especially ones with compression artefacts) lossless webp gives smaller sizes.

And if you already have compression artifacts, what use is lossless?
Only time you would want it is when you are uploading comparison photos specifically showing compression artifacts created from some other compression result.
That's a bit to niche to make it worthwhile.

If someone chooses lossy they deserve whatever torture they receive.

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Hell, every upload on Lemmy becomes one

That is something set by your instance admin. lemmy.sdf.org actually automatically converts uploaded WEBP files to PNG. It's just up to what the admin wants.

Oh, I forgot webp supported transparency.
Guess it has something over jpg.

All I want is a picture of a god dang hot dog.

What? Why does this meme say it's not compatible with anything then? Did I get trolled?

Iirc that means it'll stay a webp, some program will just fail to open them and the once that can only do it because they recognize the file header and therefore disregard your file extension shenanigans.

What I'm saying is if you do that it's funny but also completely useless.

I think compatibility was also being taken into account here. When not looking at compatibility, JXL is the best hands down. It's criminal how little software supports it.

The website mentions

Migrating to JPEG XL reduces storage costs because servers can store a single JPEG XL file to serve both JPEG and JPEG XL clients.

Does anyone know how that works?

AV1 is for video though? JPEG-XL is patent-free, better performant than most or all alternatives, and made for images.

Yeah, almost as long as AV1, depending upon settings.

Os X has supported webp for years.

I grew up on macOS, until a few years ago where I actually had my own personal computer for the first time, which had windows pre installed, so i used that and like it a lot more than macOS, i just felt so much more free, and the general workflow felt more intuitive to me, then, early this year, i switched to Linux and there’s no way in hell I’ll ever go back. In just a couple months I learned more about how computers worked than I did over something like 12 years of using computers as a teen. It’s really crazy to me how once you get something set up on Linux, it just works, and all of the documentation is open and detailed!

OS doesn't affect what web servers accept webp, which is 90% of the use case for most people. The vast majority of people use computers as a web browser only

Yeah, let's stick with obsolete (JPEG) formats, so no one needs to improve their loaders (very hard), and people can continue to use that funny video editor that came with some old version of Windows without converters (very evil, Irfanview does not have the same meme potential as WinRAR).

betacam was better than vhs, and was used in the broadcasting industry. It was better than vhs.

Betamax, which is the one you're talking about, is not the same format, and actually equal to or slightly inferior to vhs.

yeah, I figured as much. I guess even seeing the .webp extension bugs me so much that I can't even stand the sight of it.

Worse is when the image viewer uses a DLL that could read WebP, but the lazy devs wouldn't add it to the file association list. Heard at least one case of intentional sabotage, because WebP did not work on a social media site.