On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> From an extension, to be clear.
>
> As in, an extension can implement an image decoder for a new image format,
> and imagelib will use it.  All the rest of the image-loading stuff will work
> as it already does and be handled by Gecko.
>
> Doing that sort of thing from untrusted script is obviously a different
> question altogether...

We have to start thinking about it though. That's the direction we're
heading. Have everything be pluggable and implementable from untrusted
content. Maybe an isolated worker that can do image processing and
communicate a bitmap that might be tainted?

The idea behind http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/ is pretty much
this. How you'd go about implementing <img> as web developer.


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