[Tuglist] Fwd: Re: [l2h] png images

[Amitabh Trehan]

 The discussion below could be useful for all with
images on thier sites: what is the position with jpeg?
any idea.

--- Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org> wrote:
> From: "Anthony Fok" <foka@debian.org>
> To: "Wendy McKay" <wgm@cds.caltech.edu>
> CC: <latex2html@tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [l2h] png images
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:07:00 -0600
> 
> > Just some information from a Web Graphics Design
> class about png files.
> >
> > "The major browsers don't treat png consistently,
> so we recommend not
> using them for now. ...
> > I'd suggest reoptimizing as either jpegs or gifs
> from the source files."
> > May 2001.
> >
> > So.... don't use png files;  jpegs and gifs are
> just fine
> > and have been for a long time.
> > Convert your files out of png if you want people
> > to see your websites they way you intended.
> 
> No, they are not "just fine", especially not GIFs,
> because of the stupid
> Unisys bogus "patent".  I think that Unisys is
> despicable for charging hefty
> royalty,
> essentially charging an illegal tax on the World
> Wide Web for something
> which
> was widely believed to be "free" (freedom) until
> years later Unisys suddenly
> started
> suing people.  Nowadays, all major graphics software
> company and even some
> web sites
> have to pay Unisys for what was once believed to be
> in the public domain for
> so many years.
> 
> PNG is the answer to this insanity.  And indeed, PNG
> is a superior standard
> over the aging
> GIFs.  While it is frustrating that the major
> browsers still don't support
> PNGs 100%,
> they are getting there, e.g. Mozilla 0.9.1 and
> Netscape 6.1 beta both
> properly support
> the alpha channel feature in PNGs.  Besides, except
> "transparent PNGs", PNGs
> are properly displayed in both MSIE and Netscape
> 4.77.
> 
> Both JPEG and GIF formats are respectable in their
> own way.  However, GIF is
> a
> dead-end because of Unisys' frivolous patent claim. 
> Don't give knee-jerk
> reactions
> just because some PNGs are not supported properly on
> some older browsers.
> PNG will ultimate replace GIFs, simply because it is
> a superior, open,
> international
> standard, free of influence from parasites and
> leaches like Unisys.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Fok
> 
> 
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