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[[!meta title="libpr0n: an image rendering library for Mozilla"]]
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It is neither a secret that
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[sex sells](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_sells) nor that
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Internet development is heavily influenced by
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[pornography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography).
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I know the great image viewer
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[pornview](http://pornview.sourceforge.net/)
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(which I replaced with [gthumb](http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/)
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some time ago), but today I found another interesting piece of code made
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for viewing pornography: [libpr0n](http://www.libpr0n.com/). It is
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described as
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"the smallest, fastest and most standards compliant Mozilla image library ever made"
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According to the [f.a.q](http://www.libpr0n.com/faq.html), the aim is
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"to render pornographic images in an efficient way"
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which reminded me of the sentence
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["The Internet is for porn."](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q).
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By the way, I found the library by digging into
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[ikiwiks buglist](http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/), which
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references the
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[lack of html5 support in ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/html5_support/),
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which made me interested in [HTML5](http://html5.org/), which seems to
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be [developed quite open](http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ) by
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the editor [Ian Hickson](http://ian.hixie.ch/), who writes
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[a blog](http://ln.hixie.ch/) and has
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[an index of websites he is related to](http://index.hixie.ch/), which
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referenced to [libpr0n](http://www.libpr0n.com/).
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