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Life & fun · February 2, 2025

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A brand new, "highly optimised" image format for the next generation

hey there hn! thought you would appreciate my brand new file format - i've spent over 40 minutes creating this standard. it's really hard trying to get your ideas shown to standards boards etc but i think with the great community here we can help get bioif support into all major browsers :) the spec is available over at the website, as is a reference implementation. it already has higher usage than jpeg-xl. - best

A brand new, "highly optimised" image format for the next generation launched on February 2, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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this file is a 2x2 image containing a white, red, green and blue pixel. this website contains bioif-parser.js, a module to convert between bioif and png/jpg. here you can test the module. ideally however you should write your own prosefrom image.bsb.dev

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