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Spoiler alert But if you read the article... ;@) Improper animated GIF decoding is potentially a bug and potentially a security vulnerability. The reality is t
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Spoiler alert But if you read the article... ;@)
Improper animated GIF decoding is potentially a bug and potentially a security vulnerability. The reality is this leads to duck-tape workarounds and greater tech debt on the production side of the web. Sigh. There are standards, there are expectations, there quirks across N implementations, and MxN layers of duck tape in M consuming implementations. Just one implementation intentionally or unintentionally being different causes M headaches.
Also fun Chromium-derived browserisms:
- Updating while open is allowed and leads to silent and not-so-silent breakage.
- MSFT MDE causes unexpected breakage in fun ways every now and then, including the cause of a crash while dragging a tab on Windows.
- Some flavors of Chromium browsers are broken with IPv6 enabled, leading to an ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED on every nth page visit.