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by coldpie 1049 days ago
Adding new image format support to a web browser is not a small change.
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It's not a 5 minute job, sure, but compared to something like WebGPU it's tiny.
It was already implemented, and gated behind a flag.
And surely doesnt come with any security baggage.
it adds 185 kB of compressed binary size -- probably by compressing the graphics that come along Chromium will 10x counter the added weight and it will actually save size