Vincent Povirk <madewokh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For JPEG and TIFF, which are extensible formats, there's also the > >> possibility that an image has something in it that we don't support > >> (and that the corresponding decoder on Windows doesn't support) but > >> some other decoder on the system can. > > > > A not supported stream format is a bug and should be fixed IMO. I believe > > that an implementation which declares support for all formats is better > > than a not implemented stub. > > I'm not sure. There are plenty of standard TIFF files that native > can't handle (though I don't think it's a bug if we can), and there's > the possibility of non-standard TIFF files that a corresponding > third-party decoder can.
That's a pretty questionable argument IMO. -- Dmitry.
