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Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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.html became a more popular filename extension than .htm, but .jpg remains more popular than. jpeg

The FHWA's document about traffic control standards is called Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, but Ohio's state equivalent is called Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices
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  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    Central Avenue said:

    .html became a more popular filename extension than .htm, but .jpg remains more popular than. jpeg

    this one annoys me too
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Everyone is subconsciously trying to forget how dumb a name Joint Photographic Experts Group is for a file format.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    the fact that .jpgs exist and are widely used drives me crazy
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    JPEG is fine for, like, actual photographs.

    Not much else, though.
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    .jpheg
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    I've seen people save pixel art as JPEGs, too many times. It sets my teeth on edge.

    ("Too many times" = more than zero.)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    eriophora zia said:

    .jpheg

    This was why I never gave much credence to the "say GIF with a hard G because it stands for 'graphics'" argument. If acronyms worked that way, JPEG would be pronounced "jay-feg". :P
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    html has a better rhythm than htm, the vowel in jpeg can be removed without loss of information
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    "jpeg" however contains "peg" which is a funny word
  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2017-02-24 02:57:05

  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    As far as I can tell, "htm" and "jpg" were introduced to deal with the 8.3 filenames that older Microsoft products used--eight-character name, three-character extension.

    Since Windows 95, all of Microsoft's operating systems have supported "long" filenames, so that's not really a problem anymore unless you need exact compatibility with 22+ year old software.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    So what you're saying is, it's still a problem. :P
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    .html is far more often seen in a URL, while .jpg is far more often seen in a downloaded file.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Fossilmaiden said:

    So what you're saying is, it's still a problem. :P

    The thing is the systems that support long filenames also support those weird fallback 8.3 filenames (CENTRA~1.DOC) so I can't think of any reason you'd need to actually give your file an 8.3 name.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    You put far too much faith into the concept of corporate IT infrastructure being up to date.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    glennmagusharvey said:

    .html is far more often seen in a URL, while .jpg is far more often seen in a downloaded file.

    spoiler: every JPEG image embedded in a web page has a URL :P
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Fossilmaiden said:

    You put far too much faith into the concept of corporate IT infrastructure being up to date.

    I'm mostly judging by the fact that I've never seen anybody actually use 8.3 filenames in everyday use, nor have I seen anybody mention that their files called "chemistry report 1 draft alice h.doc" or whatever have posed a real problem in practice.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Central Avenue said:

    glennmagusharvey said:

    .html is far more often seen in a URL, while .jpg is far more often seen in a downloaded file.

    spoiler: every JPEG image embedded in a web page has a URL :P
    But how often do people go to image URLs specifically, compared to webpage URLs?
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Well, that's kinda what image embedding is.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    MetaFour said:

    I've seen people save pixel art as JPEGs, too many times. It sets my teeth on edge.


    ("Too many times" = more than zero.)
    I did dozens of MS Paint pixel-art doodles back when I was in middle-high school, since I had a school laptop and we weren't allowed to install actual games on those.

    Most of them ruined. Because whatever version of Paint I was using saved with .jpeg as the default. 
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