just went to look up the status of webp images in mastodon

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/11589

turns out support was removed two years ago

@KayFaraday I wish someone did that to Firefox for me 😋
I know I can disable it with about:config var, but I know the code is still there.

@m0xee why would you disable it

@KayFaraday I unconditionally hate everything Google that's my thing 😅
I wish WebP would just cease to exist, together with WebM, VP9, http/2, http/3, etc.
You won't believe the lengths I went to get rid of WebP on my Void boxes, I have half the templates for imaging-related software patched and build the packages myself. It's not that easy with Firefox as it doesn't use libwebp and has its own implementation.

@m0xee it's a good codec though

@KayFaraday I admit, It does have superior compression, but not a game changer, I think it's 10% better on average. I mean I get why Google is interested in it, for them 10% is a lot if they save on that bandwidth, but for everyone else it's not that obvious.
And it hinders the development of new browsers — if it's not based on already existing engines, because once it's universally excepted you have to support it — one more thing to implement 🤷

@m0xee try comparing the size of the original image of this https://imgur.io/a/qUjz3FW in webp vs png

@KayFaraday
"Oops! We couldn't find that page"
Broken link?

@m0xee huh it works for me