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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by cycomanic on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:00PM (#23265252)
Well I could turn that around and say if you develop a phone and the image format it exports to is not accepted by 99% of websites maybe then you majorly fucked up.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by giantrobot on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:48PM (#23265847)
But the phone does the right thing when told to do the right thing. If the input tag has a proper accepts attribute set the iPhone will transparently and automatically transcode a HEIC image to JPEG.

A file input tag with no accepts attribute when you're expecting a particular type of file is broken. Would Android phones be "majorly fucked up" if they stored images as WebP by default?

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