[haiku-development] Re: Extracting out libjpeg.so from the JPEG translator
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:22:02 +0200 CEST
Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For a web browser, progressive loading is also important, which our
> > translators currently don't provide AFAIK, so using libjpeg.so over
> > our
> > translators is probably the way to go (and only otherwise
> > unsupported
> > images should then be handled by translators).
> This isn't a bad idea actually (making translators only a fallback)
> and would give us the best of both worlds. Though I was thinking
> about
> it and there doesn't seem to be any reason that our translators
> shouldn't support progressive loading. What is progressive loading
> after all but just trying to display a partially downloaded image? If
> they don't already support it I would think it wouldn't be hard to
> add.
You would probably need to introduce a new protocol for that, IIRC.
There is no technical reason, though, only some API changes and
extensions.
Bye,
Axel.
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