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PNG had similar issues with browser adoption. The huge thing about WebP for me is it's support for transparency (which it was planned to support last time I checked).

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I think the lack of transparency right now is what prevents me from caring enough to use it. Compression along isn't enough of a win.

Alpha-channel support is in the trunk, marked as experimental, so I think it's coming soon.

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