- From: Martian <abigail@mars.ic.iaf.nl>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 05:30:18 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
> > > Something for the new Gif standard perhaps?? > > I don't think that it is the current GIF standard. It is the way that > the graphical browsers handle these GIFs. A new GIF standard is the > farthest thing from what the WWW community needs. I say convert all of > the GIFs that you have to JPEGs anyway. With CompuServe going haywire > over trying to charge a fee for use of their standard, who needs it. Actually, there are many times one prefers GIFs over JPGs: - A lot of inlines are *smaller* as GIF than as JPG. Almost all icons are. In fact, many thumbnails can be reduced to GIFs smaller than 1k. You hardly can make a JPG (any JPG) that small. In fact, when the corresponding JPG is smaller than the GIF, you should wonder whether the image might be too big to inline it. - For images with sharp edges (like in logo's and other computer generated stuff) JPGs look bad, creating `ghostedges'. (Read the JPG faq.) - Not all browser can handle inline JPGs. - You cannot have a transparant JPGs. - You cannot have interlaced JPGs. Abigail
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