Re: Endless gamma in eXIf 2017-0119

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXcu9G6aONVMa+YuDSQv=gMocsWH6tgCuo9b0mGvZgNH6MA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Soni L. <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> I still think that a giant "NOT FOR USE AS IMAGE METADATA" string in the
> middle of the chunk would strongly discourage developers from
> accidentally using it as image metadata.


The eXIf data isn't necessarily for human readers.  In many cases, no
human will see it.  And if they do, they'll notice that it's in ALL CAPS and
won't read it, recognizing that it's some sort of boilerplate to be ignored.

Glenn

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