ELI5: In recent years, new formats like webp and jfif have started popping up. However, if I rename them to gif or jpeg, they still work. How can it be that renaming the extension doesn't ruin the image format? Why do they even exist then?

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    • I used Windows Photo Viewer (even on Windows 10) until I found ImageGlass: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass

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