Are you sure? I thought we killed pluggable decoders a while back. - Kyle
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/11/13 7:42 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> On 2013-10-11 1:08 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: >> >>> On 2013-10-10 12:28 PM, Steve Fink wrote: >>> >>> It seems like the optimal efficiency vs surface exposure vs frequency >>>> of use tradeoff would be to do everything but the top formats (JPG, >>>> PNG, GIF?) in JS. >>>> >>> >>> That's what we do today. We support those three image formats with >>> native code, and others can be supported by a js implementation, which >>> anyone can write. >>> >> >> *Can* anyone, though? >> > > From an extension, to be clear. > > As in, an extension can implement an image decoder for a new image format, > and imagelib will use it. All the rest of the image-loading stuff will > work as it already does and be handled by Gecko. > > Doing that sort of thing from untrusted script is obviously a different > question altogether... > > -Boris > > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
