The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
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The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
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Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#2At this point, I don't think it's too fringey a conspiracy theory that Apple is opposed to the advancement of web technology, while trying to plausibly appear to be in favor of it. Their motive would be obvious. Keep the native app experience superior.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#3At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp.
And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous betas of macOS and iOS and removed later. Don't remember which.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#4Firstly, i don't get what apple has to gain by not supporting webp... Nevertheless:
The screenshot puzzles me, it shows two assets, and states that compressing these by an extra ~ 250 kb would save 2 seconds. Maybe on very slow connections?
Also
> Lack of proper support for [...] web notifications on mobile
I can do without these i guess
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#5The webp issue is truly infuriating. I'd like to support it in my own websites, but I literally can't since a huge chunk of visitors use Safari.
The only hope seems to be mobile linux initiatives like PinePhone, etc. But I'm not holding my breath.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#6At this point, I don't think it's too fringey a conspiracy theory that Apple is opposed to the advancement of web technology, while trying to plausibly appear to be in favor of it. Their motive would be obvious. Keep the native app experience superior.
That's pretty fringey. Given that Apple devices still use the web a lot, including inside apps.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#7Apple.com loads in around 1 to 1.5 seconds on either of my phone or my macbook. This is on wifi though, I guess the article presumes 4g.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#8At the expense of quality, at least it was Apple's argument against supporting webp. And no, they didn't ignore it, it was included in one of the previous betas of macOS and iOS and removed later. Don't remember which.
Huh, I didn’t know this. Doing a bit of Googling, looks like it was iOS 10 / macOS Sierra.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/webp-comes-ios-10-macos-sie...
Edit: Now I kind of want to see if I can hack in support on other OS X versions by copying files around...
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#9I'm happy that Apple hasn't adopted WebP. JPEG XL and AVIF are better formats. Even Google is considering creating WebP2. WebP is already an outdated format (no HDR support), which should just die.
Re: The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support
#10At this point, I don't think it's too fringey a conspiracy theory that Apple is opposed to the advancement of web technology, while trying to plausibly appear to be in favor of it. Their motive would be obvious. Keep the native app experience superior.
That's pretty fringey. Given that Apple devices still use the web a lot, including inside apps.
Easily explained! Apple prefers you to use native widgets to make your app harder to port.