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Dear : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I (mastodon.online)

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Dear @firefox : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I get a webp file the first thing I have to do is convert it manually if I'm going to do *anything* with it.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why? PNG is good enough today, so everything moving to jxl isn't particularly urgent for me. AVIF is probably a better option in terms of platform support vs jxl.

But yeah, when it's ubiquitous, it'll be cool I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

PNG is good only because it's widely supported. It only has 8bit per channel, no support for arbitrary channels, has subpar reading and writing performance. For lossless purposes I suggest TIFF, for packing data OpenEXR is best and JPEG-XL is very promising but has limited support right now

Here is an article (centered on a film use case) https://www.provideocoalition.com/fight-of-the-file-formats-pngs-or-exrs/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are you guys even doing with your images?

I use png or jpg depending on what I want and that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yea me too... given the state of support for modern formats

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Compatibility is really important, which is what this post is all about. In a discussion about automatic conversion, PNG should be on the table.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed, I'm only here to inform