>This is on purpose, because otherwise it would lead to proliferation of redundant, potentially crappy and insecure formats on the Web. In a well-designed data

>This is on purpose, because otherwise it would lead to proliferation of redundant, potentially crappy and insecure formats on the Web. In a well-designed datatype system, an image datatype would, for decoding take a compressed image and return a decompressed image. Possibly with streaming support. It would not be able to do anything else, not having capabilities to anything else than necessary.