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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2715] GIFs
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:07:11AM -0600, sheldon wrote:
> Unfortunately png is not well supported by most browsers.
I believe PNG is supported by IE and Netscape, but the format is not as
universal.
> I would think that jpeg would be a better choice than png. Although I
> realize that jpeg works better for pictures than it does for graphics due to
> it's lossy compression nature.
JPEGs with equal quality as the GIFs turn out to be larger in size, at least
for the images that I use in www.netrek.org.
Anyway, I'm reading the LZW license announcement from Unisys
http://corp2.unisys.com/LeadStory/lzw-license.html
and I'm certain that the GIFs I have created are already covered under a
valid license, as I used Adobe Photoshop and SGI ImageWorks (which licensed
LZW from Unisys) to create the GIFs. Anyone using images from www.netrek.org
is also covered. However, GIFs from off-site locations may not be. If Unisys
comes knocking on my door, I'll switch to JPEG or PNG, but I probably won't
redo all the existing images I have at this time.
Dave
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