[mojuba]

At 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.

[Wowfunhappy]

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...

[jamil7]

I was also wondering about this and what exactly happened there, I wonder if there are some underlying issues either technical or political there.

[josho]

Or equally possible they didn’t see meaningful real world improvements?

[jamil7]

Yeah sure but why implement it at all in a beta? I remember reading that years ago employees from both Mozilla and Apple looked into the format and both concluded it wasn't worth implementing. Firefox dragged it's feet with this too and eventually caved early last year, probably due to pressure from web developers looking at Google's lighthouse score telling them to use webp.

[robterrell]

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-ios-macos-tests-googles-webp...