WebP images?

[DizzyDigger]

It seems that all the .jpg images I click on, or upload, are converted to WebP during posting.

Is that part of the upgrade, or have I got a setting wrong?

 

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[robertk]

It's automatic, nothing you're doing. Webp uses a different compression method than jpg, which gives (sometimes) dramatically smaller images. That saves resources on both ends (server and viewer), making the site cheaper to host and faster to browse.

 

[pepperj]

It's automatic, nothing you're doing. Webp uses a different compression method than jpg, which gives (sometimes) dramatically smaller images. That saves resources on both ends (server and viewer), making the site cheaper to host and faster to browse.

Since the upgrade I can't view any images on the Imac. Just the white question mark. Text is OK, just any picture.

 

[robertk]

Since the upgrade I can't view any images on the Imac. Just the white question mark. Text is OK, just any picture.

Could be a browser or OS version issue. On my iMac, running Sequoia, everything works normally. I just checked with an ancient MacPro running High Sierra, and with Safari, it won't display the webp images. However, Firefox on that old Mac works just fine, and images display normally. If your hardware allows upgrading the OS, that would probably solve it. If not, adding Firefox should do it.

 

[pepperj]

Could be a browser or OS version issue. On my iMac, running Sequoia, everything works normally. I just checked with an ancient MacPro running High Sierra, and with Safari, it won't display the webp images. However, Firefox on that old Mac works just fine, and images display normally. If your hardware allows upgrading the OS, that would probably solve it. If not, adding Firefox should do it.

Thanks,
The system is 2013 so Catalina is the end of life it seems.
I'll try Firefox and see if it corrects it.

 

[Red-Coat]

Apple added support for webp images In early beta versions of macOS Sierra and iOS 10 but later removed it and the format is unsupported in macOS and iOS Safari browser version 13 or lower. It should work for Safari version 14 and later for macOS Big Sur onwards, but not for macOS Catalina/Mojave. Note also that it’s not supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, but works in the Edge browser and is supported by newer versions of Chrome (since 2016) and Firefox (since 2019).

Note also that a number of older-version image editors don’t have support for webp but there are add-on extensions to resolve this available for some (not all) of them.