Why Wasm? (Browser Native Support vs. Plugin vs. Bevara)
Browsers, such as Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, have native support for some data formats. Using multimedia as an example, JPG (the original JPEG) is universally supported, and MPEG-4/H.264 [...]
What happened to JPEG2000?
When JPEG2000 (common file extensions .jp2, .j2k, and .jpx) was first introduced, the traditional JPEG format (common file extensions .jpg and .jpeg) was the predominant format for general, [...]
Your format is no longer supported
What if you chose a promising format and suddenly saw the message Image from https://jpegxl.info/ This happened in 2022 to Google Chrome uses, when the Chrome [...]
Ever Wonder What’s in Your Files?
Even formats that superficially appear to be straightforward can contain many separate pieces of information. Let's take a look at the contents of some interesting formats. Here's [...]
You Said JPEG. Did you mean JFIF?
You can’t always tell what's inside a file from its extension. In this post we’ll delve into the contents of JFIF/JPEG files. JPEG is often used as [...]
To Convert or Not to Convert? We Examine This Question
Formats age. A question is how and, perhaps even more importantly, when to migrate to newer formats. My Adobe PDF reader updated the other day, and I [...]
JPEG: Popular Yet Sometimes Challenging
The mighty JPEG: born in 1992, it is still one of the most commonly used formats for creating photos and images. It’s also a go-to format for [...]