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Wow! Higher compression than any other format, full transparency support, progressive/partial loading AND animations?! I can't wait for this to get widespread adoption! Github repo here btw: https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF
That's good but does it actually avoid patent minefields that others scattered around? That's equally critical for healthy adoption.
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GPLv3 will be a hard sell...
Very, very hard. I don't see why they didn't use LGPL, as GPL will greatly increase the barrier to adoption. You see how unsupported WebP is at the moment. Simply having a better compression ratio isn't gonna cut it.
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This would be great. A lot of "responsive" sites nowadays use only one image as well, the highest resolution available. So you are downloading that 4K jpeg whether you are on mobile or on a desktop.
Progressive JPEG has supported this for decades. Anyone over 25 should remember them from dial-up years.
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Also no more .thumbnails folders I imagine images appearing as fast as I can scroll, with enough visual clue to them to find images way way more quickly than with thumbnails today. As a start, thumbnails could use flif.
I think some formats already support embedded thumbnails. (EXIF metadata can contain thumbnails, I believe)
With FLIF you simply read the first N bytes of the full image and have a resonable preview. You choose how big or small N has to be, depending on the size of the thumbnail you want to show. Maybe first read N bytes for each image to get a quick but rough preview, then repeatedly read a few bytes more to enhance the thumbnail.
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The HN crowd tends to be a bit more money oriented than some of us older coders.
So you're saying that for example the FreeBSD people are money oriented because they prefer a more permissive license over the GPL?
Why all the hate for GPLv3?
The HN crowd tends to be a bit more money oriented than some of us older coders.
i want to see it in my browser and websites, home some browser support come from chrome and firefox
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I assume you're talking about progressive JPEGs. These are still fairly common in my experience. It's just that with today's typical connection speed, you'll rarely notice.
There's also progressive PNGs. Progressive JPEGs have the advantage that they increase compression ratio (though they're more expensive to decode, as you need multiple passes and refresh)