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HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format

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Re: HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format

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iOS11 now takes photos in HEIF instead of JPEG by default. I think that's why it's posted here.

Wonder how this will work with random websites' photo upload features. Will all other browsers break because they are serving HEVC user-uploaded content? Or will iOS transcode to JPEG on upload (triggering double lossy encoding?)

Re: HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format

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post #8
post #2

iOS11 now takes photos in HEIF instead of JPEG by default. I think that's why it's posted here.

Wonder how this will work with random websites' photo upload features. Will all other browsers break because they are serving HEVC user-uploaded content? Or will iOS transcode to JPEG on upload (triggering double lossy encoding?)

How many websites don't already re-encode most of the JPEGs they're handed? Facebook does- Flickr does, though sometimes you can request the original file specifically. Imgur probably does.
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