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by cflat 3298 days ago
>What's so bad about WebP?

* Lack of clear spec ("The code is the spec")

* Lack of versioning of spec (at least 3 major versions with different capabilities/features of which not all degrade nicely)

* Forced 4:2:0 chroma subsampling

* 8bit-channel only (no support for 10bit+ aka wide-gamut images)