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I wonder how we’re feeling for HEIC? Any drama/pros/cons I should know of? As AAPLs weight is behind, I wonder if we’ll get browser wars for this decades’ image formats.

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blah3166@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
HEIC faces a few struggles with adoption:

It's patent encumbered.

It's not free as in "free beer", someone has to pay for it.

It's not free as in "free speech" - you can't use, modify, and distribute software or formats without restrictions due issue #1.

AV1 and AVIF don't have any of these issues –someone correct me if I'm wrong or missing something– so anyone is able to include/distribute the software and modify to their needs.
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- haerrii@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ahh I see. I’m curious what the future holds lol
  
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