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But what if you want to display Full HD video in the image viewer from an URL? Wouldn't you need Electron for that? Also I was under the impression just the DLLs for all the image formats would be over 4 MB. I wonder how large is it uncompressed.
FYI, Irfanview might not be able to pull it from an url, but it's playing ful hd video just fine although I wouldn't use it for that.
WHAT? IN 4 MB??? WHAT???
That's amazing!
Ah, the nostalgia when Windows what so shitty that you actually needed a tool for the simplest of the simplest tasks of viewing images in all kinds of formats. I see no need for it for myself as even Windows has a default image viewer that is enough for me and I mainly use Linux anyway and every decent distro comes with a tool for that. Gnome and KDE both have their own that fit into the DE perfectly.
These are both small and fast image viewers, specially noticeable on very large images.
We need a list/directory of fast tools like these, specially now when every tool is bloated by default.
IrfanView is great, but I'm curious, why is it on top of HN today of all days? Was there something significant happening?
I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…
"It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives." Another shining endorsement of "modern" software development (no, check that... software "engineering") Before I gave up Windows permanently, and that was over 20 years ago, I used this program. The more things "change" the more they stay the same.
Looks like it, too bad, this would be amazing to have on Linux.
No one else misses Picasa?
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IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years. IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.
Of the three, ditto easily takes no. 1 spot. Must’ve saved me weeks of juggling windows and trying to remember where stuff was at this point. It’s a superpower, a true game changer if I ever saw one. Maccy on macOS is about half as good which is still an absolute unit of a tool. Couldn’t use a Mac without it.