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by jgh 2984 days ago
I keep harping on this about google, but this is so typical of google. It's the same kinda crap with WebRTC, QUIC, VP9/Webm. The one complete WebRTC lib is dug out of Chromium. QUIC, last I checked, is buried in Chromium. VP9/Webm doesn't actually support transparency but Google went and added a custom extension to support it (in Chromium) and so anybody that wants to support alpha with VP9 needs to do it Google's nonstandard way (including adding Google code to FFmpeg to do it).

They just throw stuff that would otherwise be useful to the world out there in the least user-friendly way possible. And then they make a big PR push for a while talking about how great the new thing is and then they forget about it and the project languishes.