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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by astrange on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:14PM (#25707228)
WebP was a bad idea so it's good to not support it. It was released years too early, since they started the incompatible VP9/10 right after.
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by zodiakzz on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:52PM (#25707737)
Erm. What kind of logic is that? Are you from a parallel universe where time machines exist?
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by astrange on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:57PM (#25707801)
They should not have released it without a much longer open comment period, if they expected anyone else to implement it. VP8 had barely just come out of hiding from a private company and hadn't been reviewed.

I have known the author of WebP (he previously worked on XviD) and I'm pretty sure it was his pet project.

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