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by pornel 1007 days ago
Mozilla created MozJPEG to show that WebP is unnecessary if you compress JPEGs well.

Firefox and Safari only caved years later once Chrome-only WebP-only websites were too common to ignore.

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I ignore them without problem, I do most of my web reading on my iPad that does not support webp and most sites display images without issues. Usually the ones that only offer images in webp are low quality sites and it’s usually a good sign I should just bounce.
WebP has been supported by Safari for a while now. Even WebM is supported which uses VP8/9 https://caniuse.com/webp https://caniuse.com/webm
Not on my ipad it's not and I don't plan on updating the OS at the risk of making it slower just for webp support.