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Re: The GIF format as intellectual property

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Mon Jan 9 20:54:01 1995

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 02:51:23 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: brian@wired.com
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>

On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, Gintaras Richard Gircys (GG148) wrote:
> > 1) (Moves are already being made in this direction.) Get code out there for
> > all existing browsers to gain JPEG support ASAP.
> > 
> www client support of inline jpeg will be welcome news to millions who
> have a slower line. good news out of bad ;-)

Except that many inline images are simple enough that they are smaller as 
a GIF than as a JPEG.

	Brian

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