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Why are 90% of the images WebP format? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Battle_Masker@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I'm tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there's like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

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[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

Jpg is really bad for anything with sharp lines, such as text. It also doesn't support alpha channel (transparency) which is reasonably important in modern web design.

PNG is loseless, which is great for... anything other than storage/bandwidth due to file size. There's even an animated PNG standard, similar to animated GIF, but you never see that used anywhere.

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