[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55443: Create WebP sub-sizes and use for output

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#55443: Create WebP sub-sizes and use for output
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 Reporter:  adamsilverstein                      |       Owner:
                                                 |  adamsilverstein
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  6.1
Component:  Media                                |     Version:  6.0
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-unit-tests needs-dev-note        |     Focuses:
  needs-docs needs-user-docs 2nd-opinion needs-  |  performance
  testing changes-requested                      |
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Comment (by davidbaumwald):

 First, I'd like to say that I appreciate the vast amount of work put into
 this feature by everyone involved.

 After monitoring this ticket for some time and gauging input from the
 community, I think it's fair to request a formal discussion about adding a
 Media setting to control this behavior.  Most of the community feedback
 around this feature is that it should be opt-in.

 I see some responses mentioning the "Decisions, not options" philosophy,
 but, as @jb510 stated, this is not an absolute.  There are many settings
 for various features in Core.  Some much more esoteric, yet potentially
 less impactful than this.  I think a rationale should be put forth to the
 community as to why a setting is off the table here, other than it being
 "confusing".  That could apply to any percentage of users for a given,
 existing setting in Core.

 Listening to and acting upon community feedback plays an important role in
 open source.  The general sense I gather is that the community understands
 that WebP could potentially make their sites faster, but an even greater
 number are requesting an easy, familiar way to control favoring WebP
 output over JPEG.  I understand that the "vocal minority" may apply here,
 but that could honestly apply to any feature-inclusion discussion here on
 Trac because those of us that do engage here are many orders of magnitude
 less in numbers than the user base as a whole.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55443#comment:163>
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