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Written by Felix Krause on 2024-02-04 at 09:58

When  introduced the .HEIC format, they should have upgraded the macOS file-picker to auto-convert to JPG when uploading images to websites and other apps

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Written by flowolf :verified: on 2024-02-04 at 10:04

@KrauseFx Love the Apple emoji on non Apple devices 😆

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Written by dominik schwind on 2024-02-04 at 10:24

@KrauseFx Safari does that, but only if the website tells it that it only wants JPGs

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Written by Cesare Rocchi on 2024-02-04 at 12:44

@KrauseFx yup, some much time wasted reuploading files because the recipient is using Linux/Windows :(

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Written by Oleg Shanyuk on 2024-02-04 at 12:59

@KrauseFx also, offering to strip metadata

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Written by Nick Lockwood on 2024-02-04 at 14:42

@KrauseFx it was such a weird move for Apple to introduce a proprietary picture format for marginal size/quality gains and then have to convert to JPEG at all I/O points (and sometimes fail to do so).

When the best thing you can say about a format is that you mostly never have to deal with it, you know it was a bad idea.

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Written by Oleg Shanyuk on 2024-02-04 at 16:16

@nicklockwood @KrauseFx a bit offtop; btw, is it actually possible to re-compress my iPhoto libraryto to heic images and more efficient videos? Like all the things before heic?

That would probably make it down several gigs 🙈

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Written by theilgaard on 2024-02-04 at 16:57

@nicklockwood @KrauseFx it is not proprietary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format

I think is it funny how jpeg2000 never really made it, but I think that heif/heic is a great format for high quality in a very low size.

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Written by Nick Lockwood on 2024-02-04 at 17:42

@theilgaard @KrauseFx OK not proprietary, but not industry standard either - nobody else but Apple is using it for consumer applications and no other devices or platforms can work with it.

The failure of jpeg2000 demonstrates how hard it is to replace JPEG, and I see no reason to think HEIC will succeed where it failed.

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Written by theilgaard on 2024-02-04 at 18:05

@nicklockwood @theilgaard @KrauseFx Microsoft could have implemented it in their picture viewer, but I think it works in Photoshop and other graphic apps, so I’m pretty certain that other platforms can work with it if they implement it.

I think Apple did right by defaulting to a format that has much better quality in a smaller size, that is a real improvement, and it’s not even a proprietary format so Apple did really great with that.

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