#nowadays would be better served with a straight video codec

[ailurinae]

Their is nothing wrong with webp at all. And if you are going to bitch about webp for Google reasons, you need to bitch about webm too, as webp is an image format based directly on webm scene encoding, and both were largely developed by Google.

The *only* issue with webp is that some software has been slow to add webp support. And it isn't clear why. It is not like the case of Apple not wanting to support non-MPEG video formats, which is largely due to them having a big stake in the MPEG patent pools. Nor does it seem to a be principled stand against Google (companies other than Mozilla don't really do principled stands 99.99% of the time, and the 0.01% also has a profit motive tucked inside if you look)(and Mozilla has implemented webp, because there is no real reason not to).

Nor does it seem to be a technical stand. Seems to be just dev laziness/not caring. Of course at *this* point in time they may now be putting it off even longer on the thought that .jxl (jpeg xl) or *possibly* AVIF or HEIC will take over as the dominate image format (jxl seems like the favorite at this point from what I can see, though Google is trying to kill it, and due to Chrome dominance might manage it). But that couldn't have been their thought at first, webp was around and pretty successful for *years* before jxl or AVIF got big ("big" relative to currently, which is small). HEIC/HEIF was around about as long as webp I think? but really it's always been a weird Apple thing cause they love MPEG stuff so much (HEIC being an image format based on HEVC aka H.265 video format. Same as webp is to webm, but those two are patent free, same with AVIF and AV1). Anyway no one wants HEIC except Apple.

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted