On 27 Jun 2007, at 11:55, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
In my experience...
You do not know what you are talking about. Firefox does not use OS image decoders.
And I don't use Firefox, so my point is still valid. Please don't inform me of what you think I know or do not know, it is impolite.
For your future reference, Robert, the browsers I am familiar with and was referring to in my statement about image decoders are WebKit- based browsers, OmniWeb 4.5 (historically), Camino and iCab 3. I avoid FireFox and Opera due to their non-native interfaces and form controls.
Given your statement I may be incorrect about Camino though.
We use official Ogg Theora libraries.No-one's suggesting reimplementing codecs. We're talking about integrating existing codecs into the browser, and shipping them with the browser.
This is only possible if the codec is free. I thought we were talking about the problem of adding non-free codecs (namely WMV and MPEG4) to free software, (possibly also involving reverse-engineering the codec).
- Nicholas.
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