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Re: GIF vs JPEG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Tue Jan 31 14:02:47 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 19:30:56 +0100
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From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
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At 4:51 PM 1/31/95, Simon Mullenger TS House wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The bandwidth savings, when using JPEG for image transfer, are truely amazi=
ng.
Beware. On small images and computer generated images (particularly things
like logos) JPEGs are larger, not smaller, than GIFs. Try it.
Which isn't to say that JPEG's aren't great, but not for everything (and
particularly not without an alpha channel for masking).
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-4671
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
