Comment on New Youtube Web Update Requires HTML5 Canvas

• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes because as we all know that’s too hard for Google to achieve.

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  • Celestus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, I bet it would be trivial for one of their engineers to whip up a universally compatible, hardware accelerated image file converter in JS, using no external dependencies, and less than 50 lines of code. Hint: it uses Canvas

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes because as we all know 100% of browsers have a canvas.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        which ones don’t?

        also, good goalpost moving.

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      • Celestus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Damn near 100%, yes

        caniuse.com/?search=canvas

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  • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s probably more of a scale thing, going a conversation server side need CPU time, if it can be done prior to upload then server time is reduced. I think a lot of websites do client side processing so they can do more requests per server instance.

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  • kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It would be wasteful to upload the full size image only to throw most of it away. JPEG compression is very cheap, especially at low resolutions (I assume that image search uses a pretty low-resolution source image). Doing it this way is actually what I would do for best user experience. (Not saying that they aren’t doing other malicious things, but doing the resizing on the client is actually a good idea)

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