On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote: > I'm not sure. Things like this seem like really good ideas: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/09/12/using-hardware-to-decode-and-load-jpg-images-up-to-45-faster-in-internet-explorer-11.aspx > > Obviously, I am linking to somewhat of an advertisement of a > competitor but the idea sounds great, especially the bit about > significantly lower memory usage.
I agree, that's certainly something worth looking into*. It might not necessarily mean that we can't implement decoding of some less-frequently used media format in JS. Maybe even with parts of it running in hardware**: https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/today-i-saw-the-future/ *and for all I know, people might already be doing just that ** I really like how MS is pushing the concept of only the GPU being hardware, as opposed to the CPU, which apparently is not _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
