It looks like MNG is back in.
I've kept quiet on this issue for various reasons, but I do think that, if accurate, this is the right move by drivers. People have shown an interest in working on this. The module owner has said that the code could be written better, and while I do not know enough about it to judge that opinion, that still is in my mind not reason enough for completely backing out MNG rather than disabling it with a configure option. We have much worse code (IMO) that is enabled by default with nobody working on it. Having it in the tree will hopefully allow more people to work on it.
Posted by caillon at August 13, 2003 8:19 PMWith more than 500 votes and lots of work done on it, I'm glad it has been reconsidered.
I'm curious about the off-by-default, though. Is that some sort of compromise? "We don't want it, but since everyone else does, we'll make them build it themselves."
Posted by: alanjstr at August 14, 2003 5:07 AMThe odd thing is, putting MNG back in (and on by default) would actually make the footpring SMALLER! All the current animations in firebird are animated GIFs. By converting them to MNG, the footprint would be DECREASED! It makes no sense to me why they just can't put it back in!
Posted by: LinkTiger at August 14, 2003 6:16 AMFirebird isn't the only Mozilla-based product. The footprint of Firebird might go down overall, but the footprint of other consumers of the rendering engine would go up.
Posted by: choess at August 14, 2003 8:20 AM