You win some, you lose some
At this point the issue with HEIC images is on everyone’s mind. Apple users may not have noticed, but from what I can gather the moment iOS 11 came out, incompatibility was born. That said, I am already working on solutions.
It was obvious to me that the path of least resistance was to create an image converter for Snapie. That way mobile users on iOS, with the next update, would simply upload normal jpgs instead of the super compressed format Apple is pushing these days. This means there will be a little more processing, but I doubt that will be a problem, since most iPhones have plenty of power for that task.
Now this fixes the issue for Snapie, but it does not fix the whole problem. Other apps could have the same issue, and even the most modern browsers could end up showing broken images. With that in mind, some of the real developers we have began working on a wider solution. One that would ensure full compatibility for all front ends.
Rishi told me he was working on the silver bullet, but had to stop and focus on Holozing. With the proposal live and the weight of social pressure, I cannot blame him, but he did invite me to try to help.
To be honest, there are days when impostor syndrome kicks me in the rear. More so when I spend days troubleshooting the same thing and keep hitting the same wall. The good thing or the bad thing, depends who you ask, is that I am stubborn and it takes a lot for me to give up.
Rishi created a merge request to add HEIC support to the Hive image hoster (yes, the one we all use) by converting HEIC to WebP through the Sharp library. But for some reason Docker would not cooperate. The plan is simple enough, and doing the conversion on the fly makes a lot of sense, since the final image stored on the server would need no extra work afterward.
I will not bore you with too many technical details, but I did find the culprit. The darn thing finally worked. Maybe it was luck, who knows, but I am not complaining. I will take a win when I can find one. I already contacted Rishi and made a patch for him to test. Fingers crossed.
But the day was not over, and I could not just take the rest of it off. A sense of guilt creeps up on me after a couple of YouTube videos. So I began working on Snapie as well.
I made a rough call today, something I do not love, but something that makes sense. Since Snapie is my sandbox, my box of legos for things that may make it to the mobile app, I need the integration of new features to be easier. With that in mind, I removed aioha. This says more about my shortcomings than anything, but I kept running into issues with even the most basic tasks, like image uploads.
At any rate, it is past ten and this old man feels the bed calling. I think I can rest my head without guilt. I hope so at least.
Cheers,
MenO
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Hello everyone I hope you are all good and well today in this post is some of the evidence to prove my case
If you didn't know I've been getting downvoted for a long time on Hive
They have been trying to bully me with downvotes and words but it doesn't affect me I've been online for over 25 years
So I've dealt with people like this before it's nothing new
But what they are doing is bad Very badi joined steemit like everyone else thinking it offers freedom but I must say steemit offered much more freedom than Hive does
Everyone already knows I only post my own original content I have no need to steal anything from anyone
I've been labelled a lot of things on Hive 😂 by the biggest farmers scammers and downvoters
Actions speak louder than any words do especially when them words are coming from a compolsive liars
I will keep updating this post when I get time
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HEIC is one of my two least favourite image formats (the other one is WEBP).
So often, my suppliers tell me it's fine for me to use their stock images when I list their products on my website. Then instead of providing a retailer data pack, they just say "oh, download the images off our website". But both of those formats are a pain in the backside to correct. The manufacturers don't have to worry about SEO, so always include their logo or watermark - fair enough as a way to stop unlicensed copying, but Google penalises us for having anything in product images other than the product. Then, I have to re-save as a JPG or PNG, because our website software won't let us upload images in other formats. Sometime I rally must get around to looking for a bulk converter !
i have to confess i found out of the existence of webp when I tried using Sora for making an image. Up until then, I had no idea the format existed, and that was maybe 5 months ago.
i have a feeling it will eventually go away, and so will heic
It sucks, but it seems like this time it was necessary to take 6 steps back to have more paths to choose from. And the one trod wasn't the right one, so... Good call I hope! Wishing you (and us :-P ) more success this way!