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by icebraining 3255 days ago
Sounds like a recipe to leave out unpopular platforms in the cold. What are the chances Adobe or whoever makes their decoder compatible with Haiku or NetBSD? At least with a few standard formats, volunteers have some hope of writing their own decoders once every few years. Plus, what about more restricted platforms? Lots of featurephones include browsers that can decode JPEG and PNG, but good luck getting them to download and run a custom software based decoder.