Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting...
by mistercow on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @10:48AM
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No, it wouldn't cut backwards compatibility at all. They have made plenty of additions to the format over the years, and they give you the option of saving to be compatible with previous versions. They could just keep doing that.
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Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting...
by kalleboo on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @03:57PM
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> They could just keep doing that
Then it wouldn't be a new, "clean" format. Then it'd be the old format with additions. Which it already is. Your post makes no sense to me.
Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting...
by geon on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @02:56AM
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There is no technical reason they would need to use the old fileformat at all. "Keep doing that" referred to give the user an option of what photoshop version he would like the saved file be comparible with. If he pick the latest version, the new file format would be used.