I kept a copy of the old Windows XP version of media viewer/pictute viewer, whatever the hell its generic name was becsuse at some point in, IIRC, Vista, they updated it to some piece of garbage that had an uglier UI, worked slower, had no options for slideshows, and didn’t even support shit like animated .gifs.
I think it opens webp images, because it uses some built-in library (in your OS) to load and display images. WebP format was introduced in 2010, and Windows XP in 2001, so it couldn’t support it out of the box.
I kept a copy of the old Windows XP version of media viewer/pictute viewer, whatever the hell its generic name was becsuse at some point in, IIRC, Vista, they updated it to some piece of garbage that had an uglier UI, worked slower, had no options for slideshows, and didn’t even support shit like animated .gifs.
Even that old ass program can open a .webp image.
Yo that was an absolute joke. Were they serious with that?
Windows handled gifs fine for years then suddenly only the first frame. Seriously?!
What the hell, seriously?
Wait how does that program know how to open webp? Does webp have like a fallback png mode or something?
Webp is a format Google made. Something gave it a codec, so it knows how to open it. It a program doesn’t have the codec to read it, no go.
This may work depending on your application https://github.com/jacklicn/libwebp
Ah fair enough, I thought that with it being Windows XP era software made by Microsoft, it wouldn’t load codecs dynamically like that lol
I think it opens webp images, because it uses some built-in library (in your OS) to load and display images. WebP format was introduced in 2010, and Windows XP in 2001, so it couldn’t support it out of the box.