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Re: Overlaying inline images

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Un)
Mon Nov 21 15:51:09 1994

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 21:23:01 +0100
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From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
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David Koblas said:

> Belive it or
> not it is actually possible to create 24 bit deep images using
> the GIF specification, but that something that no display tool
> will be able to support.

Reminds me of the quote about a dog walking on it's hind legs. The marvel is not 
that it does it well, but that it does it at all.

> The GIF89a spec would allows you to do simple animation if you 
> wanted...

And xanim would let you replay it (on X workstations running unix).

> ps. I would take TIFF as a native browser image file format, yesterday!

Your vote has been noted ;-)

--
Chris

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