#2116: .NORM Normal File Format
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[Cueball is at a computer. Someone is talking to him from off-panel.]
Voice: I sent you the data.
Cueball: Thanks!
Cueball: …this is a Word document containing an embedded photo you took of your screen with the spreadsheet open.
Voice: Yeah? Does your computer not support .NORM files? Maybe you need to update.
[Caption below the panel:]
Since everyone sends stuff this way anyway, we should just formalize it as a standard.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:At some point, compression becomes an aesthetic design choice. Luckily, SVG is a really flexible format, so there's no reason it can't support vector JPEG artifacts.