The annoying thing about it is so many sites are pushing it because it is technically better than PNG in terms of quality vs file size, but so many other programs and sites didn't get the memo. Some sites won't let you upload webp, some programs can view and edit it but not by default, some just don't work, I think Windows has issues displaying thumbnails of it, Google images reverse search yells at it, and sho on and sho forth.
My favorite art program supports dragging images straight into the canvas to open as a new canvas, or into the layers to add as a new layer. It can take .webp in the canvas and open it just fine, but try to directly insert it as a layer does nothing. So I gotta open as a new work, Ctrl+A Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+V just to put a webp as a new layer. And of course it can't even export as a webp either.
The worst thing about separate PNG and JPG is most people, even most developers, don't understand that a solid-color or very repetitive image will be compressed to a far smaller file size using PNG than JPG, despite being completely lossless.
The annoying thing about it is so many sites are pushing it because it is technically better than PNG in terms of quality vs file size, but so many other programs and sites didn't get the memo. Some sites won't let you upload webp, some programs can view and edit it but not by default, some just don't work, I think Windows has issues displaying thumbnails of it, Google images reverse search yells at it, and sho on and sho forth.
It's not webp's fault, he's just a little guy!
My favorite art program supports dragging images straight into the canvas to open as a new canvas, or into the layers to add as a new layer. It can take .webp in the canvas and open it just fine, but try to directly insert it as a layer does nothing. So I gotta open as a new work, Ctrl+A Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+V just to put a webp as a new layer. And of course it can't even export as a webp either.
The worst thing about separate PNG and JPG is most people, even most developers, don't understand that a solid-color or very repetitive image will be compressed to a far smaller file size using PNG than JPG, despite being completely lossless.