[Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs

Sat Apr 19 10:09:37 MST 2008

Right but I more or less was wondering why they don't use libtiff in Firefox. I wasn't implying they should reinvent the wheel 

Eric 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich" <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:45:24 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs 

On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:51 pm, Eric M. Gearhart wrote: 

> I wonder why Firefox doesn't implement that natively... hmm. 

Probably because there aren't that many Web pages that use TIFFs? And 
for those that do, it's not worth reinventing the wheel, so farm it 
out to a library. That's the whole point of libraries, right? 

R. 
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