That is because you hot-linked the photo. -- Try uploading the photo
I don't think he's asking for that at all. If you upload that image (after allowing
.webp
and .wbp
), you receive this error when clicking on the status icon:I should be able to upload it from any device...ie... phone, desktop, laptop, tablet, etc... I can do so with a JPEG, GIF, and PNG file for example. But at the moment WEBP is not supported by phpBB.
This. The message actually reads that it is not a supported extension (invalid file extension) here on phpBB.com. On my localhost, I tried to manually add the photo association.
No, tested on a testboard I have setup as well as an internal board at my company.
Simply embedding a resource is not checked by default - you could also embed a HEIC or PCX picture, provided it is served elsewhere. php-BB-Is-Awesome is talking about attaching such a file.
Then that should have been made clear in the OP, and a generalisation that phpBB does not support this format.
With all respect to your long experience, but "inserting .webp files" is equally ambiguous (if not wrong) as the initial post not using the term "attachment". I'm used to newcomers not being precise, but you weren't better in that post.
image_types()
doesn't handle IMAGETYPE_JPEG2000, IMAGETYPE_ICO and IMAGETYPE_WEBP (the latter only available with PHP 7.1.0 and younger).Nobody's perfect and everyone, no matter how much experience, isn't always 100% clear when expressing thoughts/recommendations, and even with years of experience mistakes are made (and you're no exception).
We will periodically advise users of the correct terminology, but going through and editing posts just so the same terms are used is a little over the top. It's the same as the whole thread vs. topic debate that constantly goes on.