Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score (stackdiary.com)
from cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me to technology@lemmy.ml on 26 Sep 2023 15:22
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K4sum1@lemmy.zip on 26 Sep 2023 15:28 next collapse

All my homies hate webp

simple@lemm.ee on 26 Sep 2023 15:44 next collapse

Webp is pretty good actually, not their fault many apps don’t support it.

Would be even nicer if we can get JPEG XL off the ground though

Tibert@compuverse.uk on 26 Sep 2023 15:54 next collapse

If Google didn’t remove it from their browser… Not sure in how much time, if ever, jpeg xl would become popular.

simple@lemm.ee on 26 Sep 2023 16:00 collapse

They’re thinking about bringing it back after Apple said they’ll support it.

BorgDrone@lemmy.one on 26 Sep 2023 19:50 collapse

Really? What does it add that isn’t already done better by other formats? WebP is just Google having not-invented-here syndrome.

chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net on 27 Sep 2023 02:27 next collapse

If memory serves, one of the main selling point that was presented was that WebP was able to compress an image better while retaining more visually relevant information than JPEG.

BorgDrone@lemmy.one on 27 Sep 2023 15:39 collapse

It has better compression than libjpeg, but that’s not due to the file format. There are other JPEG libraries that give similar or slightly better results than libwebp.

lud@lemm.ee on 27 Sep 2023 16:02 collapse

Just one thing is the ability to show animated images without being absolutely shit, like gifs.

Gifs animations have next to non optimisation and each frame is just another full image. And their colour is very bad.

BorgDrone@lemmy.one on 27 Sep 2023 17:08 next collapse

Why not just use a video file?

lud@lemm.ee on 27 Sep 2023 17:43 collapse

You could do that and some websites use mp4s instead of gifs. I believe imgur calls their peudo gifs “gifv” which is actually an mp4 (or maybe webm/p) with a bit of trickery.

The problem with using mp4s is that they don’t normally loop like you would expect a gif to do.

They also get a playback bar and such by default, many browsers also block auto playback of videos.

vox@sopuli.xyz on 27 Sep 2023 18:14 collapse

png fully supports animations (great for short animations but as it’s not a video format file size explodes exponentially as you make animations longer and the resolution larger. it’s good enough as a replacement for typical jifs tho)

jmd_akbar@aussie.zone on 26 Sep 2023 16:33 collapse

The webp format can go to the depths of hell!

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works on 30 Sep 2023 01:08 collapse

Yeah this sucks - log4j round 2.

Not enough of my EUC team are taking it seriously unfortunately