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  1. DebugBear: What is JPEG XL: do we really need another image format?. “In 2018, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) issued a call for proposals for the ‘next-generation image compression’. Numerous proposals were submitted, but only two were selected to proceed, one by Cloudinary (FUIF) and one by Google (PIK). The two were eventually combined to create JPEG XL (often shortened to JXL), […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/07/what-is-jpeg-xl-do-we-really-need-another-image-format-debugbear/
  2. 🙄 Ah, the joys of JPEG XL—the image format that bravely tosses bit depth into the abyss of irrelevance. Who needs precision when you can have chaos? Meanwhile, poor #AVIF is stuck in a corner crying into its extra bits. 🤡
    fractionalxperience.com/ux-ui- #JPEGXL #imageformats #technews #chaosprecision #bitdepth #HackerNews #ngated

  3. On the latest #ATPpodcast I heard @siracusa pronounce the HEIC image format as a word - "heek" [hiːk]. He is the first human I have heard pronounce it as a word. I feel like, for me, it will always be "H E I C".

    There are several acronyms I treat this way, that I've heard others say as words, thinking about it.

    PNG, SVG, BMP, IFF, SQL, URL, LED, GUI, PDF, PCMCIA (well...), etc.

    I am old and set in my ways.

    By the way, GIF is not on that list because I pronounce it as a word starting with a soft G, because that is how that is pronounced.

    #filesystem #imageformats #files #fileextensions #acronyms #computing #linguistics #heic

  4. Ars Technica: Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files. “Dozens of porn sites are turning to a familiar source to generate likes on Facebook—malware that causes browsers to surreptitiously endorse the sites. This time, the sites are using a newer vehicle for sowing this malware—.svg image files.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/ars-technica-adult-sites-are-stashing-exploit-code-inside-racy-svg-files/

  5. 🔥 Breaking news: #JPEGs still reign supreme after three decades, and apparently, that's so controversial it broke the internet! 🖼️💥 Who knew discussing image formats would lead to a 403 Forbidden Error – looks like even the web server couldn't handle the excitement! 🤦‍♂️
    spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-f #ImageFormats #InternetControversy #WebServerError #DigitalArt #HackerNews #ngated

  6. PC World: Security flaw found in GIMP! Avoid opening this file type until it’s fixed. “More specifically, the vulnerability occurs when an ICO file is much larger than its stated image size. The creator of an ICO file can specify any dimensions for the image, but the actual dimensions may be larger, which results in a calculated buffer size that’s too small. When the buffer overflows, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/17/pc-world-security-flaw-found-in-gimp-avoid-opening-this-file-type-until-its-fixed/

  7. Lifehacker: Google Photos Now Lets You Convert Standard Photos to Ultra HDR. “Ultra HDR is a cool image format. Like traditional HDR, this format packs more image data into each media file, which translates into brighter highlights, darker shadows, and more vibrant colors. However, Ultra HDR files also contain the standard dynamic range (SDR) version of the image as well. That way, you can […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/lifehacker-google-photos-now-lets-you-convert-standard-photos-to-ultra-hdr/

  8. Apparently Facebook doesn't know what to do when you upload a GIF that is not animated -- just a single image.

    Animation wasn't even added until GIF89a! The main Discord channel I haunt also disallows GIFs wholesale -- to avoid animated GIFs any *.GIF file is trashed.

    Is this what the human race has come to?

    #ITSNOTAVIDEO #GIF #animGIF #images #imageformats #woeisme #ilament #Facebook #society #sadness #regret #tech #Fb

  9. Hey, speaking of Alt Text (which I wasn't), when are we going to update some common image format, or create a better new one, that allows alt text to travel with the image metadata so that it could automatically be added to any on-line posting?

    #AltText #Metadata #Images #ImageFormats #ideas

  10. Is it a good idea to start replace PNGs in my website by WebP now that support is there, or should I wait for AVIF to be more widely deployed? AVIF is better than WebP and is now supported with the last version of Firefox, but still isn't supported by Safari. Obviously, I'm going to fallback to PNG anyway using the `<picture>` element.

    caniuse.com/?search=avif
    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

    #webdevelopment #avif #webp #imageFormats

  11. Firefox 86 Will Support Next-Gen Image Format by Default

    Firefox will support the new AVIF image format by default from next month. A bug report reveals Mozilla devs plan to ship Firefox 86, due in February 2020, with out-of-the-box support for AVIF images. AVIF :sys_more_orange:
    #Dev #News #Avif #Firefox #ImageFormats #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox

    :sys_omgubuntu: omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/firefo