APNG patch for graphics/png port
Mikhail Teterin
mi+mill at aldan.algebra.com
Mon Dec 22 14:08:09 PST 2008
Sent by Jeremy Lea:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think, I'm in favor of the last approach, at least for
>> now that animated PNG (APNG) content is non-existent anyway
>>
>
> Except for many of the chrome icons in firefox, etc. i.e. doing this
> with break firefox.
Was not one of the advantages of APNG the fact, that a non-Animated PNG
reader will still show the first frame of the animation? In that case,
the icons will simply be non-animated...
> Do number one - link mozilla apps against their own
> static libpng. It really isn't that much space, and the mozilla build
> works that way by default.
>
I think, I listed an argument against this. The security one. It is also
"not right" technically -- we aren't building the bundled libz, libbz2,
nspr, etc. for a good reason...
-mi
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