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Call me naïve, but I would have thought that if Browser A can decode more types of video than Browser B, that would serve to increase the use of Browser A, and might help Browser A if it has a smaller market share than Browser B.
Perhaps the expected market-share advantage is insufficient to pay for the support of the extra capability?
That's ok, unlike the shitty response they did when Google removed JPEG-XL!
But it would be nice if they instead, focus and improve the support for AV1 and VP9 to the maximum extent possible.
And when will they finally start implementing HDR support so we can see the videos on Youtube and other sites properly, like we can see them on our TVs?
I still can't believe they invested so much to implement Vr support instead of HDR support, since Vr is much less and harder to use since very few people have Vr headsets, compared to the many HDR capable displays that people have.
People have HDR capable displays? Never had one. My wife and me we both have two screens on our desk. But they are like 5-10 years old. No reason to replace them as they work fine. I figure it's similar for other people.
But I'm finally eying with VR headset. So I'm happy for any VR support I can get.
I contemplated that thought, but I don't think Theora is advanced enough to have such exploits.
Yeah I mean granted a WASM sandbox layer would be good. But IIRC there are already (on some platforms?) other layers of isolation / sandboxing / security configurations etc. for the browser that make exploits harder so that's something. And anyway it's a CODEC something one would kind of expect to be bomb-proof / fuzz-proof / resistant to invalid / corrupt input data, coded robustly / safely, etc. etc.
Maybe I'm giving too much credit for code quality and security but if devs (browser, CODEC library) can't even get THAT stuff right routinely almost every single time after many versions of a stable and widely upstreamed CODEC then that doesn't say anything good about SW engineers / engineering pratices or about the house of cards of bad code / technology we've built everything on.
"If carpenters built houses like programmers build software then civilization would have been destroyed by the first woodpecker that came along."
People have HDR capable displays? Never had one. My wife and me we both have two screens on our desk. But they are like 5-10 years old. No reason to replace them as they work fine. I figure it's similar for other people.
But I'm finally eying with VR headset. So I'm happy for any VR support I can get.
A lot of (well not insignificantly many) people find that some 4k TVs make fine big screen monitors. I've seen it commended by a fair number of developers and of course it's advantageous for gaming etc. too vs. small standard monitors *and* a link over to a TV for playing on a bigger screen.
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