zerogravity wrote:1. Increased attack surface. It's new, in flux, tries to support everything and is used by the majority.
2. Windows 7 photo viewer does not support it, which is already annoying for gifs.
3. I don't want google dictating my usage - my browser, my way.
1. WebP has been around for years. And the codec is even older since it's VP8 which has seen plenty of people hacking at it.
2. Windows 7 photo viewer isn't something I'd use as a criterion, ever
3. Being able to decode an image format using an open lib isn't Google dictating anything. it's Pale Moon offering broader support for file formats. In that case we should also add prefs for bmp which is Microsoft. GIF for being Compuserve, MP3 for Fraunhofer, OGG because the format sucks, etc. Making a pref for everything is madness, and our tree already has too many that nobody ever touches.
So, I guess you don't want it because you don't want to use anything that has at one point in time been sourced by Google. You'd better stop using Pale Moon, Firefox, or any other browser out there (since half the web standards out there are written by Google people too, and http/2 is pretty much Google's SPDY, to name a thing)