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But would have been these bugs discovered if the browsers had not adopted the new format? There are many other image formats and their libraries which are most
by frankjr 3y ago
But would have been these bugs discovered if the browsers had not adopted the new format? There are many other image formats and their libraries which are most likely riddled with bugs, but nobody cares because they are not used by major software (certainly not the people capable of finding and exploiting these bugs because of poor time reward ratio). Being unused for longer wouldn't make them any less buggy.
- _ache_ 3y agoI can confirm that. I talked about it in my last blog post.
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