[X] My Assistant

Seeing this topic title "so who here hated webp before?" so long after it was posted, I thought "What? Did webp go open source, then got massively fixed, thus deserving the end of any prior hate?"
Of course I realize: it's this world, this planet, this mankind...no way things could go that right.
And after checking the OP date, yeah, it's just a necro.

BMP won't save color profiles so you'll lose quality.
I hate webp because it has been replacing png's and gifs in some places since it supports an alpha channel plus lossy compression. Tried to download a pixel-perfect overworld map for Dragon Quest II the other day and it had been webp-ified. Archive.org had a gif version thankfully.

Also yeah, jpeg sticks around because it's good enough for many of the things people use it for, and normies don't know better anyway.

I hate webps because they introduced a problem without solving anything. Do I care about saving 20kb? No. Do I mind that what was once a perfectly cohesive ecosystem where every software was able to open any image file I happened to save from web has now been disrupted? Yes.

I know I can convert them and some software has plugins to work around webps. That's additional work I'd rather not do. That's another possible step where some software might bug out. It'd make sense if this was 1996 and I'd be desperate to save bandwidth, but it's the opposite. I wouldn't care if every meme reaction image was 20MB if that's what it took for me not having to manually convert any of them.

I have a shell script called "fuck-webp" that I use to download and automatically convert webp images to png format. It also converts already existing local webp images. Depends on imagemagick (this one uses imagemagick version 6 but it should be easy to adapt for version 7).

CODE

#!/usr/bin/env sh

webfuck() {
  DESTBASENAME="$(echo "$1" | sed 's!^.*/!!g;s!\.[Ww][Ee][Bb][Pp]$!!')"
  wget -O "$DESTBASENAME"'.webp' "$1"
  convert "$DESTBASENAME"'.webp' "$DESTBASENAME"'.png'
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ] && [ -e "$DESTBASENAME"'.png' ]; then
    rm "$DESTBASENAME"'.webp'
  else
    1>&2 echo 'Error on: '"$1"
  fi
}

filefuck() {
  DESTBASENAME="$(echo "$1" | sed 's!\.[Ww][Ee][Bb][Pp]$!!')"
  if [ -e "$1" ]; then
    convert "$1" "$DESTBASENAME"'.png'
    if [ "$?" -eq 0 ] && [ -e "$DESTBASENAME"'.png' ]; then
      rm "$1"
      return 0
    fi
  fi
  1>&2 echo 'Error on: '"$1"
}

while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
   'http://'*)
     webfuck "$1"
;;
   'https://'*)
     webfuck "$1"
;;
   *)
     filefuck "$1"
;;
esac
shift 1
done

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Jul 30 2024, 05:34

I still hate webp.

I dislike it because of the lacking compatibility with modern browsers.
I'm more of a Jpeg-XL fan myself.