04-25-2021, 07:30 PM
(04-25-2021, 06:44 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: A bit like you, too bad Imgur (and the software we use here on G-F.n) still don't support WebP fully. Imgur is weird, because if they don't accept the format as an upload, they often reencode as a WebP (while keeping the original extension...).
As to compression effectiveness you cannot look at size only, you have to balance size vs image degradation. There are "nice" pictures for GIF (especially CGI where everything can fit in the 256 entries of the colormap and you have sizable areas of uniform color) but the animation from real-life pictures is likely to look better in WebP for the same file size.
Particularly curious, normally when there is a new functionality available. website developers almost shove it down your throat (HTML 5 for example) forcing you to either update, or suffer the wrath. Webp almost seems to have a stealth presence. It's out there, but hardly anybody is evangelizing it.
I guess it's time for me to bite the bullet and buy some hosted space again.
