Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

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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