if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?
e.g. flac for lossless audio because…
(yes you can add new categories)
summary:
- photos .jxl
- videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a ‘container’)
- daw session files .dawproject
- documents .odt
- archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
- models .gltf / .glb
- plain text utf-8
- interchange format .ora
- configuration files toml OR yaml (disagreement)
- typesetting typst
- open domain image data .exr
- lossless audio .flac
- lossy audio .opus
- subtitles srt/ass
- container mkv
Well, actually ODF came first, to which MS paniked (governments liking standards), so they then remade their office formats to OOXML. Except most of it proprietary extensions, 600 page confusing documentation, bribery during standardization (ECMA, they failed ISO), etc.