WTF coding #5 - Specifications.
Recently (i.e. about three years ago) I aquired a new hobby: implement internet standards. It is rather time consuming, yes... so far I've succeeded in writing my own implementation of several cryptography algorithms (RSA, AES, SHA-2, PBKDF2 to name most of them) and to get several protocols to a "running in test environment" stage both as server
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Does it mean you would be writing a new browsers, or...
Does it mean you are standardizing code people must write into their interpreted pages, ...
or.... ?
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It's essentially "just for fun and knowledge" - I did use the odd piece of code in personal projects though. Like my crypto-classes work the magic behind the twitter integration of our Eurofurence Fursuit Photoshoot application so we can send pics directly from the set.
And with the graphics thing right now... I'm annoyed that I can read/write GIF with the standard libraries but none that I know of allows me to directly interact with the features that this format provides. Every library "unifies" loading/saving formats - which is a plus if you need to "just write it" but offers no control over the result. Like animated GIFs? Not really supported by most implementations, yet it would be easy and just a few code lines more compared to the "single frame" GIF.
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