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Hi All, This new compressed image format looks like a good fit with Gemini. It's a "simple" format that works with very small implementations. I think it would be a great addition to the Gemini browsers out there and could make browsing even faster. https://qoiformat.org/
Hey! Normally it is not the business of clients to handle images. Instead, they should run whatever program is configured to open the MIME-type (unless it's something basic, like Gemtext or plain text). But yes, this seams interesting. And yeah, the clients that display images inline should probably support it. Cheers, ~almaember -------- Original Message -------- From: Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com> Sent: 26 December 2021 15:43:54 CET To: "A protocol that is slightly more complex than gopher, but significantly simpler than HTTP" <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu> Subject: [tech] QOI image support in browsers Hi All, This new compressed image format looks like a good fit with Gemini. It's a "simple" format that works with very small implementations. I think it would be a great addition to the Gemini browsers out there and could make browsing even faster. https://qoiformat.org/ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Hi Chris, Thanks for the heads-up! Looking at this new format seems to fit better other scopes like, for instance, videogames. Cheers, TGL >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 09:43:54 -0500 >From: Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com> >To: "A protocol that is slightly more complex than gopher, but > significantly simpler than HTTP" <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu> >Subject: [tech] QOI image support in browsers >Message-ID: > <CAOk9ws2=v1-Uf0d=ZSC27bj=FxiRsLUN3q5OPnUzTwaBvoGPLA@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >Hi All, > >This new compressed image format looks like a good fit with Gemini. It's a >"simple" format that works with very small implementations. I think it >would be a great addition to the Gemini browsers out there and could make >browsing even faster. > >https://qoiformat.org/
On 27. Dec 21, at 15.57, The Gnuserland <gnuserland@mailbox.org> wrote: > Looking at this new format seems to fit better other scopes like, for instance, videogames. I agree. I think with Gemini the important metric is the size of the compressed images, not the (de)compression speed. According to the QOI benchmark table, the file sizes are roughly equal or a bit larger than PNG. On 26. Dec 21, at 18.37, almaember <almaember@disroot.org> wrote: > Normally it is not the business of clients to handle images. Instead, they should run whatever program is configured to open the MIME-type (unless it's something basic, like Gemtext or plain text). I would say it's perfectly normal for a GUI client to be able to display images if directed at an URL with an `image/*` media type. Many rich text/webview UI controls that are likely the foundation of a GUI gemtext viewer will also be able to at least show JPGs and PNGs. But yeah, the user should expect an external handler to deal with any media that is not supported by a client. --jaakko
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