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Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

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669 points danso | 1 comments | 20 May 20 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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IvanK_net ◴[21 May 20 17:55 UTC] No.23262092[source]▶
I am 100% on the side of the school. Unlike with JPEG, everybody who wants to work with HEIC should pay licence fees. Also, HEIC is like 50x more complex than JPEG.

I hope the world will never get to a point, where each phone brand stores photos in their own format, and you need a special software from the phone manufacturer to view the photos (that is what we have now with raw photography formats, and what we used to have in the past with phone chargers).

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Mirioron ◴[21 May 20 18:38 UTC] No.23262892[source]▶
Windows, macOS, iOS and Android all support it though.
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1. KingMachiavelli ◴[21 May 20 20:07 UTC] No.23264327[source]▶
But no browsers do [1]. For an OS that does its best to hide file types & extensions from the user, it's absurd to not have robust file type conversions when moving/sharing files between apps.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif