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evikstoday at 2:52 AM1 replyview on HN

> and narrowly scoped to the needs of the Web

> it was hard enough to get widespread WebP adoption

That's not a coincidence! And because these newer codecs are better outside the Web, it's not really "the same hill"


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computerbustertoday at 2:55 AM

In the post, I say "I think WebP was a bit too narrowly scoped"

This is not a coincidence, but I don't think it was that devs looked at WebP and thought "huh, the lack of 4:4:4 and 10-bit support makes this less compelling for our product despite being all over the internet" – I think it was just a matter of not keeping up. Except for Apple, not sure why they took so long to implement it.

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