I post a lot of gifs in my work chat because I’m a highly productive individual, but Teams doesn’t have webp support. I thought, “Well that’s silly, I’ll just convert them to gifs, but webp is clearly a stupid format.” Then I converted one, and it had terrible artefacting, choppy framerate, and was over 300% larger. Now I’m mad at Teams.
I’d so much love for webp support to increase
It’s so much better than sending jpegs to people
It’s a format published by Google without much industry input. I imagine, that’s why it isn’t seeing terribly much adoption.
AVIF and JPEG-XL might do better, but they’re still relatively young formats.
Every time I see this, it reminds me that webp is not good, it’s just better. And that an author of webp likely kept JPEG XL out of Chrome. What could have been…
