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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by simonh on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:55PM (#23264170)
Nothing starts common, you have to start somewhere, and it is an ISO standard format.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by Alupis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:44PM (#23264953)
A file format, used by one company, isn't going to change the world.

JPG and PNG are here to stay. Love it or hate it... they are the lowest common denominator for image formats.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by lazyjeff on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:30PM (#23265639)
File formats change fast. It was not too long ago PNG was the newcomer, and people were touting how much better it was than GIF for non-photographs (alpha transparency, better compression, etc.). It has been successful, and now almost all applications support it. Same thing with moving from AVI to the MPEG formats in video.

New formats are a good thing, and fast adoption of them is good for users.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by simonh on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:56AM (#23269666)
>used by one company

Samsung have started changing over as well, it's the default on their latest phones.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by a1369209993 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:26PM (#23266242)
> it is an ISO standard format.

So is COBOL[0]; that doesn't mean you should ever use or support it.

0: https://www.iso.org/standard/28805.html

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