This seems very odd given that the previous discussion [1] seemed like adoption was increasing.
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
Gee. Maybe there's no interest because nobody can use it yet because it's behind a feature flag.
It wouldnt make sense to keep it as a feature flag forever, and once it is not a feature flag it becomes much harder to backout.
They didn't struggle with removing H2 PUSH though.
H2 push is also something that degrades much more gracefully if missing compared to an image codec.
Nonetheless, people haved removed image codecs before (rip XBM). Harder is not the same as impossible.
-WebP 2 is the successor of the WebP image format, currently in development. It
-is not ready for general use, and the format is not finalized so changes to the
-library can break compatibility with images encoded with previous versions. \
-USE AT YOU OWN RISK!
+WebP 2 is an experimental image codec based on WebP. WebP 2 will not be released
+as an image format but is used as a playground for image compression
+experiments.