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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for these explanations, that makes a lot more sense now. I didn’t even think to consider browsers might be using something else than an off-the-shelf implementation for image/other file formats…, lol

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry I didn't mean to imply they don't use shared libs, they definitely do, but they have to integrate them into the larger system still and put consistent interfaces over them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah I realize that. My go-to comparison would be PDF. Where Firefox has PDF.js (I think?), Chromium just… implements basically seemingly the entire (exhaustive!) standard.

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