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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. 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