• Luci@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    What I got was that there would be no Google or Mozilla specific code/libraries, but FOSS libraries for common media formats would be included so that the project can reach a wider audience.

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      6 months ago

      What I got was that there would be no Google or Mozilla specific code/libraries, but FOSS libraries for common media formats would be included so that the project can reach a wider audience.

      AFAIK They use Skia, the rendering library made by Google so this does not appear true either.

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        6 months ago

        Well that sucks. There are so many alternatives with just as much support

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          6 months ago

          skia doesn’t actually have that many alternatives, and skia is well maintained used by a large amount of projects. and none I am aware of are nearly as mature as skia is.

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          6 months ago

          I mean, to be fair, Skia appears to be good - Firefox and LibreOffice also use it for example. I believe GNOME Web will also use Skia in GNOME 47. It certainly seems that people are moving away from Cairo and into Skia. For what reason? I don’t know.