Post by @fvsch@hachyderm.io

2026-09-16 03:40 UTC

@gianni@disobey.net @wbrowar@hachyderm.io @nhoizey@mamot.fr Sure, but that's orthogonal to the codec. If you have a straight out of camera high quality lossy 60MP file, you probably want to display this smaller preview regardless of whether the full size image is JPEG, HEIC, JXL or AVIF.

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@fvsch@hachyderm.io 2026-09-16 03:52

@gianni@disobey.net @wbrowar@hachyderm.io @nhoizey@mamot.fr All those "should a browser support rendering big files" questions get murky anyway. Should it render a 10 MB PNG, a huge SVG with thousands of elements, a 50 MB PDF, a 100 MB audio file, a 200+ MB video? All these could be rendered server-side to some smaller preview. But ultimately the support comes down to "do we already support the format anyway?" and/or "how much demand is there?" I remember when audio, video and PDF rendering were not the browser's problem and needed plugins or downloading a file to open it with other software; this changed because of demand, not because PDFs, AAC and say VP8 are magically tiny files smaller than a JPEG thumbnail.

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