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quasque on Dec 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice

On that note it would be interesting to see if the EXIF data is typically included at the start or end of JPEG files, or if it varies via compressor.

jzwinck on Dec 30, 2012 [–]

In EXIF, whether applied to JPEG or TIFF, the header comes first, then the thumbnail if present, then the primary image. Exactly as you'd want (which is more than can be said for much of EXIF, e.g. that it lacks time zone encodings).

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