On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:50 PM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> > 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? If not, we shouldn't encourage people to use them by > supporting them here. > > > The OP request was not to support the formats, it was to identify the > formats so that loading of unsupported formats could be skipped without an > http request. So, while I don't expect significant use on the Web, I would > expect some support for tiff and eps in some non-Web implementations, such > as Prince or WeasyPrint, perhaps. Maybe even some ePub implementations? > EPS is very common in professional print production, even for raster images > (especially for CMYK). So is TIFF. > Is that still the case? I thought PDF pretty much replaced those classic formats. The Adobe publishing apps have to jump through a bunch of hoops to support EPS properly. PDF is much easier and more reliable.
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