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Story: Microsoft's plan for 'new JPEG' leaves users cold

Posted by: Brian (Thursday 1 June 2006, 2:36 PM)

It may work out like "VB Script" on web pages. At one point that was touted as "the way to go" but people stuck with javascript.

As a web developer I would not use it. The chances of a high proportion of visitors to a website not being able to view the image because "only Vista/IE7 supports it" would finish it for me.

No doubt, everything Microsoft publishes for the first year after Vista will be issued in the new format to force us all to upgrade, but they can't (won't?) even implement PNG correctly so that doesn't bode well for "openness"

No doubt they'll keep the format secret or else some enterprising legal troll will turn up and start yelling about patent infringement. It has happened to JPG, GIF and PNG so why should this one be any different?

Of course, maybe there will be some really, really clever feature that makes the whole thing work brilliantly and we'll all be gasping to use it......