[webkit-reviews] review denied: [Bug 36082] GIF animates much more slowly in Safari than Firefox : [Attachment 50647] Patch v1

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Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> has denied Mark Rowe (bdash)
<mrowe at apple.com>'s request for review:
Bug 36082: GIF animates much more slowly in Safari than Firefox
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36082

Attachment 50647: Patch v1
https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=50647&action=review

------- Additional Comments from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>
The discussion seems to have dried up, so I'm saying r- to avoid it going in
rounds. We certainly have a significant Web compatibility problem to solve, but
as indicated by the research above, this particular solution will introduce an
equal number of regressions, which is simply not how the WebKit project rolls.
Perhaps - and hopefully - there is a clever heuristic we could come up with
that would make it a clear win for existing Web content.

> Authors can conceivably update images that are too fast in Firefox to
> look right everywhere, but they can't make a similar change to make images
too
> slow in IE look right everywhere.

Animated GIFs are a legacy technology, and making it learn new tricks is not
the main concern - especially since these tricks won't be available for general
Web content unless MS decides to make the same change, and until the versions
of IE with the old behavior can be disregarded.

There are many other ways to display animations on the Web.