Hi, I'd like to propose that we switch over to using the WebCore image decoders.
Zoltan has spent some time comparing performance and memory usage between the ImageDecoderQt (and the qt plugins for image decoding) and the WebCore image decoders, in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71555 My interpretation of the result is that performance and memory usage wise there's not much of a difference. However the WebCore image decoders have some advantages that are of a different nature: 1) They are an actively maintained piece of code. Unfortunately the Qt image decoder plugins are subject to less tender loving care. The WebCore decoders are used by pretty much all other ports, and from my totally biased point of view we have also found them working great for the N9 with the Qt based browser/webkit. 2) They support image downsampling, which is particularly nice for mobile devices with less memory than our gigabyte filled workstations. 3) The jpeg decoder supports progressive/interlaced jpegs, which is again an nice thing for image loading over slow connections. Therefore I'd like to re-open https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32410 . Any opinions / objections / thoughts? Simon _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
