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So every website would ship with its own codecs? There aren’t shared caches across domains. Why would anyone choose that much latency+badwidth+compute (which ne

So every website would ship with its own codecs? There aren’t shared caches across domains. Why would anyone choose that much latency+badwidth+compute (which new require JS enabled) to use a new codec over the native ones? Certainly not the small–medium sites.

miohtama 3y ago
Because of the total saved bandwidth. Codec binaries are few hundred kb at most, while high quality images are dozens of megabytes.