It’s created and backed by Google, so that’s no doubt Jamie’s main beef.
Also, when it first came out, most OSs didn’t have native support, so saving a webp locally, you could only open it via a browser, or you installed a non native image viewer, not unlike jpegs and gifs during Windows 95
Side note, I personally use nomacs as my default image viewer in Win10 - https://nomacs.org/
I don’t disagree with him in many aspects but I also think he’s a hypocrite in many aspects so…It just led me to stop caring about whatever he does/says
inb4 jwz blocks access to his website from Lemmy
Edit: Jokes aside:
Is WebP bad? If so, why?
That got me too… Webp is pretty sick actually
It’s created and backed by Google, so that’s no doubt Jamie’s main beef.
Also, when it first came out, most OSs didn’t have native support, so saving a webp locally, you could only open it via a browser, or you installed a non native image viewer, not unlike jpegs and gifs during Windows 95
Side note, I personally use nomacs as my default image viewer in Win10 - https://nomacs.org/
Toward the end it gets way more political and unhinged
Common
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I don’t disagree with him in many aspects but I also think he’s a hypocrite in many aspects so…It just led me to stop caring about whatever he does/says