Martin Owens-2 wrote
The other is some sort of crying emoji to appear in the export box next to text that reads "Danger: There are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make a better image format than JPEG" or maybe just "Warning: JPEG isn't a very good format" would do.
Why should a program take on itself the responsibility of judging image formats? They exist so there must be a reason. Maybe they're historical, maybe they are just so much widespread that there's no point in pretending that people don't like/use them, maybe they really have some features that make them useful. Maybe someone just need them.
I think that the exact same reasoning could be done with MP3s. But people have their smartphones full of MP3s and JPGs and compressed videos and so on. We won't go much further without compressed formats. And web pages would probably not even have started to exist.
I avoid JPGs as much as I can (that is always, usually ;) ) because I don't like taking compromises when I can afford the lossless solution. So don't waste time in explaining me the advantages of PNG over JPG: I already know them and I really love the PNG format.
But even so, I don't like a program to tell me in which format I have to save my documents! Indeed, I don't like programs that tell me what to do in general. Programs are instruments that I expect to help me: if they suit my needs they're good, otherwise they're pieces of junk. And it can be the opposite for someone else at the exact same time. There's no absolute point of view on this, and no point in discussing too.
Either you can produce JPGs or you can't. And if you decide you can, no "Are you sure? Really? No, because you see... you may not know what you're doing... Humph, do I have to? Ok: here's your rotting JPG", please (but if you just cannot help it, be polite and add a "Do not show again." checkbox to the dialog).
Luca
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