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
  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
    3·
    1 year ago

    Finally, Firefox pdf.js came in and solved that issue.

    Which uses a bloated and convoluted scripting format specialized on manipulating html.

    • DigitalJacobinEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      True, but it offered a much more secure alternative to opening up PDFs locally.

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think so. pdf.js has all few monts a new XSS CVE, which is a web thing only. And if you use anything other than Adobe Reader/Acrobat…