From 7724fc0de1f759898e577302ae721ceca07c3189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:36:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add blogenrty libpr0n: an image rendering library for Mozilla Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius --- blog/libpr0n-the-internet-is-for-porn.mdwn | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/libpr0n-the-internet-is-for-porn.mdwn diff --git a/blog/libpr0n-the-internet-is-for-porn.mdwn b/blog/libpr0n-the-internet-is-for-porn.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f8956045 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/libpr0n-the-internet-is-for-porn.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!meta title="libpr0n: an image rendering library for Mozilla"]] + +It is neither a secret that +[sex sells](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_sells) nor that +Internet development is heavily influenced by +[pornography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography). + +I know the great image viewer +[pornview](http://pornview.sourceforge.net/) +(which I replaced with [gthumb](http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/) +some time ago), but today I found another interesting piece of code made +for viewing pornography: [libpr0n](http://www.libpr0n.com/). It is +described as + + "the smallest, fastest and most standards compliant Mozilla image library ever made" + +According to the [f.a.q](http://www.libpr0n.com/faq.html), the aim is + + "to render pornographic images in an efficient way" + +which reminded me of the sentence +["The Internet is for porn."](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q). + +By the way, I found the library by digging into +[ikiwiks buglist](http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/), which +references the +[lack of html5 support in ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/html5_support/), +which made me interested in [HTML5](http://html5.org/), which seems to +be [developed quite open](http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ) by +the editor [Ian Hickson](http://ian.hixie.ch/), who writes +[a blog](http://ln.hixie.ch/) and has +[an index of websites he is related to](http://index.hixie.ch/), which +referenced to [libpr0n](http://www.libpr0n.com/).