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Re: mauve results posted nightly


From: Stuart Ballard
Subject: Re: mauve results posted nightly
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:41:03 -0500
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Brian Jones wrote:

Don't use GIF due to licensing problems.  I think JPEG recently became
problematic as well.

Well I can't use PNG since Netscape 4.x compatibility is the whole point of using an image in the first place (decent browsers know how to display an empty cell...)

I believe that the GIF format doesn't *require* the patented (and therefore problematic) LZW compression, but I don't know for sure. I also don't know if there are any tools that will create patent-free gifs, but it would be nice if there were. I don't think LZW or any other compression would buy a huge amount on a single pixel anyway ;)

Or is there something other than the compression that's bad about gifs?

Stuart.

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