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est • yesterday at 3:00 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

WHy? Browsers should have supported plethora of formats!


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jaffathecake • yesterday at 6:18 AM

Plethora means an excessive amount, so I disagree.

Adding formats to the browser gives us more code to maintain, increases the binary size, and increases the attack surface area. That's why, at Firefox, we insisted on a Rust decoder.

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