diff --git a/vp8l/decode.go b/vp8l/decode.go
index 13fa6d9..ee7afb0 100644
--- a/vp8l/decode.go
+++ b/vp8l/decode.go
@@ -130,8 +130,9 @@
 			pix[p+2] += pix[p-2]
 			pix[p+3] += pix[p-1]
 		}
-		// The C code fills in palette entries past the nColors upper limit as
-		// transparent black. In Go, we re-slice up to 256 4-byte pixels.
+		// The spec says that "if the index is equal or larger than color_table_size,
+		// the argb color value should be set to 0x00000000 (transparent black)."
+		// We re-slice up to 256 4-byte pixels.
 		t.pix = pix[:4*256]
 	}
 	return t, w, nil
@@ -530,7 +531,7 @@
 		return nil, 0, 0, err
 	}
 	if version != 0 {
-		return nil, 0, 0, errors.New("vp8l: unsupported version")
+		return nil, 0, 0, errors.New("vp8l: invalid version")
 	}
 	return d, int32(width), int32(height), nil
 }
diff --git a/vp8l/transform.go b/vp8l/transform.go
index f79431c..06543da 100644
--- a/vp8l/transform.go
+++ b/vp8l/transform.go
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 				pix[p+2] += avg2(avg2(pix[p-2], pix[top-2]), avg2(pix[top+2], pix[top+6]))
 				pix[p+3] += avg2(avg2(pix[p-1], pix[top-1]), avg2(pix[top+3], pix[top+7]))
 
-			case 11: // Select(T, L, TL).
+			case 11: // Select(L, T, TL).
 				l0 := int32(pix[p-4])
 				l1 := int32(pix[p-3])
 				l2 := int32(pix[p-2])
@@ -155,18 +155,18 @@
 				t1 := int32(pix[top+1])
 				t2 := int32(pix[top+2])
 				t3 := int32(pix[top+3])
-				t := abs(c0-l0) + abs(c1-l1) + abs(c2-l2) + abs(c3-l3)
 				l := abs(c0-t0) + abs(c1-t1) + abs(c2-t2) + abs(c3-t3)
-				if t <= l {
-					pix[p+0] += uint8(t0)
-					pix[p+1] += uint8(t1)
-					pix[p+2] += uint8(t2)
-					pix[p+3] += uint8(t3)
-				} else {
+				t := abs(c0-l0) + abs(c1-l1) + abs(c2-l2) + abs(c3-l3)
+				if l < t {
 					pix[p+0] += uint8(l0)
 					pix[p+1] += uint8(l1)
 					pix[p+2] += uint8(l2)
 					pix[p+3] += uint8(l3)
+				} else {
+					pix[p+0] += uint8(t0)
+					pix[p+1] += uint8(t1)
+					pix[p+2] += uint8(t2)
+					pix[p+3] += uint8(t3)
 				}
 
 			case 12: // ClampAddSubtractFull(L, T, TL).