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Add support for WEBP image format.

A topic by papercookies created Apr 28, 2021 Views: 3,896 Replies: 3
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Given the tight 3mb limit for animated gifs, we could really benefit from wepb support. Webp is super tiny, so we could make our pages a lot prettier! It can do regular images, transparency and animated images, it's basically the GIF of the future. Especially for a GIF, 3mb is not a lot, and it has always been my greatest pain with publishing my games. Often having to spend half an hour ultra-compressing my gifs as much as possible to get it just below that 3mb limit.

WebP is open-source, developed by Google and pretty much every browser supports it! Ezgif can also convert video to it and it's supported by most major image editing software such as Photoshop and GIMP.

Here's more info: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp

Thanks for listening!

Admin(+8)

Good idea. I think last time we looked into this browser support wasn’t quite there. The situation seems to be a lot better now though.

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Yes, great to hear! I really think it'll open up a lot more options for developers and pretty pages :)

(+1)

Since this is 3 years old, I opened a GitHub issue to avoid overlooking this: https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1609