(I posted this earlier this week, but it disappeared! Weird. I was wondering why no one commented.) WebP is a new image format. Well, it has been around for a few years now, but with Big Sur it now has macOS support in Safari and throughout the system. At least for viewing. As for creating them, there is at least one Mac app that will do it.
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