Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)

Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by dangus on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:59PM (#44302599)

> HEIC is good, as long as you pinky promise to never ever leave Apple's ecosystem, ie HEIC sucks.

Not really true in my experience, I have no problems using it in Windows 11, Linux, or with my non-Apple non-Google cloud photos app.

The iPhone using it in an incredibly widespread way has made it a defacto standard.

If you're having trouble in Windows, I wonder if you're running Windows 11 or 10? Because 11 seems a lot better at supporting "modern things" considering that Microsoft has been neglecting Windows 10 for 3 years and is deprecating it this year.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by munchler on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:01PM (#44302634)

My problem with HEIC is that if you convert it to another format, it looks different from the original, for reasons that I don't understand. I switched my iPhone back to JPEG to avoid that.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by jorl17 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:18PM (#44302811)

Perhaps due to HDR handling?

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by spookie on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:57PM (#44305279)

Only Gwenview on the Linux side is able to render them properly somehow

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by dangus on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:12PM (#44321078)

I have increasingly noticed very little reason to convert them to JPEG.

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