if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
  • Elise@beehaw.org
    33·
    1 year ago

    I wish there was a more standardized open format for documents. And more people and software should use markdown/.md because you just don’t need anything fancier for most types of documents.

      • Elise@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Impressive! Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know there was a standard. So if someone sends me a docx I can ask them for an iso format now :)

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well, actually ODF came first, to which MS paniked (governments liking standards), so they then remade their office formats to OOXML. Except most of it proprietary extensions, 600 page confusing documentation, bribery during standardization (ECMA, they failed ISO), etc.

    • monobot
      5·
      1 year ago

      I agree, we need support for it in libreoffice and than other document editors.

      We can not expect people to use codes, but editor that saves to it would be grat.