30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
4:46 p.m.
On 30/08/11 6:37 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 08/30/2011 04:47 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Now that would be downright silly, wouldn't it, suggesting that people
use a file format before it has been devised.
There were, however, standardized, documented, and widely-supported
file formats before that time. Picking the most obscure,
least-supported one during that time would be stupid, just as it would
be now.
Users aren't clairvoyant; in fact they rarely even give a thought to
future-proofing (which is why we're in this mess). People use what's
convenient, or what the vendor supports. That is often not an open or
sane format, as has been mentioned previously.
NetPBM are about as simple as it gets (uncompressed, of course).
--Toby
But
those are the ones we're talking about. If people are saving
images in weird, undocumented, known-by-a-handful-of-people image
formats, they're effectively screwing themselves (and their images) in
the future.
So everybody who used digital image processing systems before JFIF(JPEG),
etc became a standaard was 'screwing themselvae's and is an idiot?
And, by the way, we can still read those file formats.
Further, JFIF has been around for a LONG time. Care to estimate the
number of digital images in existence before its inception, as a
percentage of the total number of digital images in existence now?
-Dave