Posting A Webp Extention Image: I Figured Out How To Do It Without Instructions - Did I Miss Them?

Here is what is seen right now:



Near the top in BOLD is listed the various electronic image formats which can be posted to SCF. Some time ago, the WEBP was added as another choice.

After a while when my desired images to post started to be WEBP extension images I tried to post them using the Free SCF Image Optimizer but any WEBP extension image I selected would not load to the Image optimizer unlike what I normally did with the expected result. My work around was to just screenshot the intended image thus removing the WEBP extension. I had no problem loading the screenshot download into the optimizer.

Except as time passed more and more images were in the WEBP extension and the screenshot workaround was getting tiresome.

Now today for whatever reason I had a third cup of coffee at 1 PM my time. Then came here on the SCF to play. With the proper amount of caffeine aboard to trigger my old programmer (starting with punch cards on an IBM mainframe circa 1968, Basic on a hand-me-down PDP4 so-called personal computer, then began using a geographically local interconnected set of educational institution computers with UC Berkeley in the center beginning 1970: can't say "internet" since that did not arrive in term nor reality until 1983), QA and etc (into 2015) testers brain cells I my light bulb (LED) went off. I skipped the image optimizer and went directly to the Upload Image button and selected one of my downloaded WEBP extension images directly and found it uploaded and displayed correctly.

So for WEBP extension images one need not go through the Free SCF Image Optimizer step which explains why that step did not work as it was not needed. Is that info somewhere on site? Or, perhaps it was added to the 'how to' information for uploading images which I have not bothered to go back to because, well, I have upload 100s of images without problem.

However, my honest guess is it was a regular human oversight as with the shortening of quoting function script [quote.../qu...] to just "q" and "/q" in the brackets ("[ ]"). I am also old enough to know the slash is actually a virgule but since proper English left educational instruction, slash was adopted by those who did not know about virgule or could not spell virgule. I will stop here as I do not want to start on the discussion of language from the rise of pictographs/ hieroglyphics through alphabets and back to pictographs/ hieroglyphics which are now know as Smilies .

So just to prove it, here is the same image posted as a screenshot handled via the FSCFIO and again as a direct load of a WEBP extension.

Via Optimizer (I did do a slight crop of white space with the optimizer)-


Direct WEBP image load--

Since Parcelpostguy has brought up the topic of the relatively new webp image file extension, I thought it might be useful to mention the following extension to some browsers.

I wrote this originally for my Registered Mail Study Group Newsletter published back in April.

The webp image format was developed by Google to reduce the file size of many images posted on the internet. It appears that eBay - for one company - has started converting all images uploaded to their sales pages, to this format.

When saving files from eBay, or other websites, that are in the "webp" format, there is no integral way to save a file in the "webp" format as a "JPG" file. It is necessary to save the file, then use another application to convert it to the desired "JPG" format. I recently found a browser extension which can be added to your Chrome browser called Save As File, which allows the user to specify the format he wants to use when saving a file, with options for JPG", "PNG", and "webp".

Information about the extension for Chrome can be found here.
https://github.com/image4tools/Save-Image-as-Type

I have been using this version for several months now with no significant issues. There is one behavior that is annoying. While the user can specify the final file name that he wants to use for the downloaded/saved file, if he allows the application to default to the name of the file on the internet, the application truncates that file name to 32 characters. Therefore, when downloading a file whose name was originally longer than 32 characters in length, the user should take care to compare the file name on the internet with the file name stored on his computer. There are apparently several versions for this extension, so watch for dates when you read reviews. There are some old and negative reviews for similar extensions that have been around, so read carefully, and always be cautious when downloading files from the internet.

Information about a similar extension for the Firefox browser can be found here.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...png-or-jpeg/

I have not used the Firefox version, so you should check it out carefully if you need this capability.

Mike L

I use Firefox--

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