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Not the only format Adobe made overly complex. Wonderfully amusing code comment, about Adobe PSD format: https://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/854615.html http
by mark-r 7y ago
Not the only format Adobe made overly complex.
Wonderfully amusing code comment, about Adobe PSD format:
https://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/854615.html https://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/854615.html
- wpietri 7y agoAre there 30- to 40-year-old application formats that you think have done a better job adapting to new needs and 4 to 6 orders of magnitude improvements in the systems they run on?
- mark-r 7y agoTIFF did a wonderful job of being forward thinking. It has been the base for a number of other image file formats.
- wpietri 7y agoI think TIFF has a number of advantages there. It was from the beginning an interchange format, so it had the opportunity to look at a bunch of existing formats and extract the commonality. It's also not an application format, so the pace of change is slower and more controlled; it can trail rather than lead. And it is of course a standard, which means a different set of dynamics around how things get added and how clear the specs have to be. That's not to say it isn't great; I could well believe it. But I'm just not shocked that PSD and PostScript have ended up being a bit of a mess over the decades. I doubt I could have done any better.