I’ve only noticed this in the past few days. Not sure if it’s a new issue, but I feel I wasn’t getting this before last week. (Eta: I’m on the latest update) Most Lemmy image links in comments are doing this now.
Sorry if it’s been posted already; I tried searching and didn’t see anything.
Thank you for all your hard work – I LOVE Voyager! ❤️
Those aren't images but videos. "webp" is an image format. Nowadays webms should be supported by Safari, though. Do you have a link so people can check what's going on?
I think they’ve mostly been reaction gifs. It’s always been when people respond with [image] like this:
e: it links to this: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/75284597-e426-4ce3-8446-c1b69dc06627.webm which for me is the webm download screen.
Note that the thumbnail displays fine. (Eta and I just noticed when I link it, the thumbnail also displays, though I can’t view the image.).
eta: sorry for all the edits, but I’m not trying to open things in Safari; not sure if that’s what you meant. This is all within Voyager . A few images open fine, but most now show this page instead. I don’t know whether the Voyager viewer is using the Safari api to show these images?
I'm guessing Lemmy is now converting GIFs to WEBMs to save space, then.
Trouble is, I just tried it on my end and yeah, Safari won't open it. VLC can, however. I guess it means Lemmy apps will need to add a webm library now.
Edit: just saw your edit. I'm mentioning Safari because clearly Voyager was trying to open the webm using the in-app browser and not natively. Meaning Voyager doesn't know how to deal with this format.
That makes sense. Hopefully it will be resolved in a future update.
Thanks!