[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 26379] Reconsider image decoding architecture/APIs

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26379





------- Comment #36 from treat at kde.org  2009-06-15 09:02 PDT -------
<quote>While I respect your position as a port maintainer, given your comments
on IRC
and the past couple bugs, I believe that the people disagreeing with you have
superior knowledge of this particular area of the code and how the various
ports have been affected.</quote>

This looks like an argument from authority to me and was in response to a
technical argument made by Holger that the RGBA32Buffer class should, in fact,
reflect its actual name.  Also, it is not clear to me that the argument to
authority in this particular instance even works conceptually.  Regardless, I
believe technical arguments should be given technical responses rather than
relying upon logical fallacies.

>From my vantage it seems that Holger has raised specific qualms with the design
introduced by these recent changes and met with the following responses:

1) The changes are already in the tree...
2) It fixes a performance problem in some ports (although I haven't seen a
rebuttal to Holger's point that the GTK+ port did not suffer such a problem.)
3) Changes that will be made in the future will address the design problem.

None of these seem to be responsive to me.  One is clearly not an answer. Two
might well be true, but this doesn't absolve the changes with regard to the
stated design problem.  Three is also clearly not an answer.

Whatever the merits of the recent changes I think Holger's objections based on
a fundamental design problem should be given due attention and resolved before
proceeding.


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