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Re:Firefox 93 by teekert on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:08AM (#28759698)
Do you know when we can expect .heic?
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Re:Firefox 93 by theandrewbailey on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:15AM (#28759784)
If you mean the container format, AVIF uses it natively.

If you mean the image format, probably never. It's based on the HEVC/H.265 licensing minefield. For that reason, I don't expect it to ever be supported on Chromium or Firefox based browsers.

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Re:Firefox 93 by teekert on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:32AM (#28760017)
Hmm, I have no issues viewing the files (iPhone pictures) on my Ubuntu desktop, are they that much braver?
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Re:Firefox 93 by Gigachad on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:17PM (#28765733)
Yes. You probably have the extra codecs package added which is arguably illegal to distribute in the US. Other distros like Fedora won’t touch it.
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Re:Firefox 93 by yboris on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:29PM (#28763541)
I thought that .heic has patents on it and is thus not free in some cases. Which I think is an overwhelming reason to bury it and not use unless you have a very good reason to.

Having fewer browsers support .heic format would be a benefit -- as it would decrease the chances of the format surviving.

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Re:Firefox 93 by teekert on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:14AM (#28770848)
Hmm, I really like live photos(the moving pictures of the iPhone) and the advantages that brings. Damn, Apple got me again. I'm going to read up on advantages of Heif and maybe set up script in Nextcloud to auto-convert, so I do have a free format of all my pics.
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