Alpha in WebP?

[Tony]

I haven't tested yet, but is there alpha transparency in the WebP
format?

[Peter Beverloo]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 22:45, Tony <tonys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't tested yet, but is there alpha transparency in the WebP
> format?
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No, not yet. As can be read in the article on the Chromium blog,
support for a transparency layer is planned for a future update.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html

Kind regards,
Peter Beverloo
http://peter.sh/

[Rich Bradshaw]

Not yet, but they've said there will be in an upcoming release.

That will be amazingly awesome - I hate having to use PNG for detailed
transparent image. Hopefully this will be the solution for smaller
transparent detailed images.

[Tony]

Yeah, it sounds awesome. They should also add in support for
animation; I was sad to see that APNG didn't take off as GIF is awful
for transparent animations.

[antimatter15]

Actually, adding animation to WebP would pretty make it into WebM, as
WebP is basically a single-frame version of the video codec.

Adding transparency to the VP8 codec would be awesome (though it's
probably too late for that) though.