• Luci@lemmy.ca
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    4 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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      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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        4 months ago

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

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          4 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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          4 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.

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      4 months ago

      Honestly, I’m not sure that’s quite a good takeaway. The article itself was pretty much a bland nothing burger and the articles that were cited were, again, pretty bland. The biggest thing I can find is that they won’t be facing off another browser and then it’s like, well duh.

      It’s just one of those things. It just feels like the original dude said one thing and the author interpreted it a completely different way.

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        4 months ago

        No, that’s a takeaway from the post by the dev about Ladybird. It’s what he said, more or less.