Example alien.png downloads as alien.webp

[sauron62833]

I'm trying to follow the introduction, and hitting a problem at this point: https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/introduction.html#draw-a-sprite

When I download the alien.png sprite, it downloads as alien.webp. This is a different format that I don't think Pygame Zero can use?

It can be downloaded fine from here: https://github.com/lordmauve/pgzero/blob/38cb6021496bd2f9dae0b37ef3ee6304dee71e2f/doc/_static/alien.png

I guess this is something to do with how your website is being generated?

[Mooldool]

Im not sure why its that way but you can use file converting services to change it to supported file formats. Just search "webp to png" and don't click ads.

[lordmauve]

I think ReadTheDocs has adopted a CloudFlare proxy that is re-encoding PNG files to WebP.

Pygame 2 actually supports WebP; we would just need to add .webp to the file extensions that Pygame Zero searches for when loading images.

Either way I think we need to change the instructions in the docs.

[BruceMardle]

Just noticed the same problem. It used to work.
PS I hate .webp!