[webkit-dev] about WebKit Gif decoder

Hi all, I noticed that webKit implements its own Gif decoder and doesn't use the extrenal library libgif. can any body explain me why? is that for performance reasons? i.e the WebKit current decoder is faster than the giflib one? regards. haithem. ___

Re: [webkit-dev] about WebKit Gif decoder

2009/3/28 haithem rahmani > Hi all, > > I noticed that webKit implements its own Gif decoder and doesn't use the > extrenal library libgif. > Safari does not use the GIF decoder in the WebKit tree, but rather uses CoreGraphics. Other ports, such as Chromium and the Cairo port, do use the GIF de