[wiki] [sites] Add more clarification on the NetPBM vices || FRIGN

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:01:07 +0100

commit 8442703323a785cecfe80ce65fa94ddf7f776561
Author: FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
Date: Wed Jan 13 00:00:55 2016 +0100

    Add more clarification on the NetPBM vices

diff --git a/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md b/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md
index c059f86..19de916 100644
--- a/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md
+++ b/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md
_AT_@ -74,8 +74,15 @@ Portable BitMaps, Portable GrayMaps and Portable PixMaps.
 It's not helpful when a manpage can't give a simple overview
 of a format in a few sentences.
 
+NetPBM's big vice is that it has originally been developed
+to be hand-written and passed around as plain text.
+Handling optional comments in the header, base 10 ASCII
+width and height values, arbitrary whitespace inside the
+data and out-of-band image size and color depth is too
+painful for the sane user.
+
 Judging from the usage of the format considering how long
-it's been around, it's no surprise it never took off.
+it's been around, it's no surprise it never really took off.
 Additionally, functionality like alpha channels and 16-Bit
 color depth can only be achieved via extensions.
 Due to it being a textual format it also lacks the desired
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