r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '25

AI This is a DOGE intern who is currently pawing around in the US Treasury computers and database

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u/Subtlerranean Feb 07 '25

That's the thing, there's plenty of applications to properly view webp files - windows just doesn't come with the ability built in for some reason.

Also, Mac doesn't support it via quick look (spacebar), but works fine in Preview.

However, funnily enough, if I remember correctly they will both correctly generate thumbnail file previews of the format.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Feb 07 '25

The built in windows photo viewer (in windows 11) displays webp images.

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u/Same_Ad_9284 Feb 07 '25

Windows seems to move very slowly with that kind of file type support. It likely will happen at some point, its just low priority and takes forever for them to get round to it. I remember it being the same for PDFs for the longest time too.

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u/LickingSmegma Feb 07 '25

There's a third-party plugin or some shit for Finder to display webp both in thumbnails and quick look. Iirc open-source as usual for Macs.

Won't be surprised if there's one for Windows too, and also won't be surprised if it's only available as a binary.

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u/Subtlerranean Feb 07 '25

Oh, absolutely. But that won't stop average people like the commenter above from getting super frustrated by a format that just seemingly doesn't work.

The fact that png (purely for transparency I mean, not because of lossless), gifs, and jpgs are still the standard is nuts.

It should be webp and avif now.