Re:Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp?
by pilif on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:08AM
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Have you seen the horrendous security issues with ImageMagick lately (last one to get a nice branding and logo was ImageTragick (https://imagetragick.com) )? Browsers have a hard enough time already dealing with the few formats they currently support.
Now either they manually add trusted support for all the additional formats (which would mean basically rewriting ImageMagick, but without the security issues, which is really hard considering the huge amount of file formats out there) or they rely on an external library and risk something like ImageTragick to cause global machine ownage of never before seen scale.
No. I like my browsers to be conservative there, though JPEG2000 would be cool to have :p
Now either they manually add trusted support for all the additional formats (which would mean basically rewriting ImageMagick, but without the security issues, which is really hard considering the huge amount of file formats out there) or they rely on an external library and risk something like ImageTragick to cause global machine ownage of never before seen scale.
No. I like my browsers to be conservative there, though JPEG2000 would be cool to have :p