- From: Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:51:24 +0000
- To: liam@w3.org
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, W3C CSS Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Thinking about bmp, tiff, tga, eps again, I'm not sure there's a use-case there. True, they're supported by some software (eg Prince), but if you're using them you tend to be writing for a specific UA, so you don't really need format negotiation. Is that fair to say? If so, we could stick with the formats likely to be negotiated across the web, namely: webp mpo (3d format support by DS browser) jxr (jpeg xr, supported in IE) jpeg2000 With the following thrown in for compatibility: gif jpeg png svg Jake. On 18 February 2013 22:07, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 09:50 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > mpo (3d format support by DS browser) >> > >> bmp >> > >> tiff >> > eps >> > >> >> Is there any significant use of these formats on the Web, or any reason to >> start using them? > > Maybe someone at Google or Microsoft would have an answer to that. > > I'm not aware of any Web browser that handles Tiff natively today, but > the format is used in the print world, and likely to grow in the future > (unfortunately, since TIFF is a mess). It's the most widely interchanged > lossless multi-layer format other than (proprietary) psd -- something > needed for printing in colour (typically CMYK layers). I'd be happy to > encourage use of something else (MNG?) but there isn't really a > substitute right now. > > BMP is default for Microsoft Paint, or used to be, and one still > encounters them sometimes. > > Liam > > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml >
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