I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it
@foone yep. it exists. I typically use XMP metadata during image processing jobs, which has a text field for 'description' and many others. it's fairly standard for XMP tooling to be included in the app's base features.
> The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
@foone They wouldn't be as durable as you'd hope. So many sites strip EXIF anyway to remove GeoIP, and descriptions would probably get stripped too since I'm sure there would be a lot of "Picture I took of my beautiful daughter Jane Smith, SSN 123-45-6789, as we sit on the lawn in front of our house at 123 Main Street".
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