Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 21, 2021 2:14 PM EDT
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Open source, offers fast, lossless compression, and has a very charming name. A developer named Dominic Szablewski has given the world a new file format with a splendid name: the Quite OK Image Format (QOI). The file format might be better than that. Szablewski explained that he decided the world needed a new image format because the likes of PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV and MP4 “burst with complexity at the seams.”

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