[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 26455] GIF clamping time differs from Firefox

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26455





--- Comment #13 from Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com>  2010-03-14 13:25:22 PST ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> I think you misunderstood. Introducing a significant number of regressions is
> unacceptable, and that's more than a subjective opinion.

I didn't misunderstand a thing.  Regressions are bugs -- just like existing
bugs are bugs.  Introducing a regression is bad, but not fixing an existing bug
is also bad.  Saying "no new regressions" without context or acknowledgement of
what gets fixed isn't good policy, it's blind dogmatism.

With this change, I claim we fix more bugs than we introduce, our new behavior
makes much more sense, there is more agreement amongst browsers (everyone
except IE will agree), and it's possible for people to fix GIFs to comply with
the new behavior, which isn't possible with the old behavior.

HTML5's new parsing rules introduce some regressions too.  When browsers
disagree, there are usually regressions of some sort when you try to converge
on something.

If this were so cut-and-dried as you make it, I'd have expected any commentary
to that effect on comment 1 from Maciej or the linked bug from Mark, both of
whom are pretty meticulous about doing things The Right Way.

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