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I don't think it's a critical feature, but it is nice-to-have. Imagine if you opened a direct link to a JPEG image and instead of the browser rendering it, you
by sltkr 11mo ago
I don't think it's a critical feature, but it is nice-to-have.
Imagine if you opened a direct link to a JPEG image and instead of the browser rendering it, you'd have to save it and open it in Photoshop locally. Wouldn't that be inconvenient?
Many browsers do support opening web-adjacent documents directly because it's convenient for users. Maybe not Microsoft Word documents, but PDF files are commonly supported.
- bawolff 11mo agoYeah, but browsers actually make use of that format. And its not like you can add a special header to jpg files to do custom reformatting of the jpeg via a turing complete language. Browsers just display the file.