Contrary to its name, the new QOI image format is more than just okay

A developer has developed a new image format called “Quite OK Image Format”. It is open source, offers fast, lossless compression and apparently more than lives up to its name – QOI is supposed to be better than just ok.

The developer Dominic Szablewski has developed a new file format called QOI. The naming of the Quite OK Image Format is a little understatement, according to the Register, the file format could be much better than just “quite ok”. Szablewski writes in a blog post that he developed QOI because the existing formats PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV and MP4 were so complex at the seams …

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