[7467] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: GIF vs JPEG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Wed Feb 1 06:37:27 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 11:33:28 +0100
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From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@dxal18.cern.ch>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
Before this flamewar reaches meltdown :-
1) JPEGs is good, all browsers should support them pronto :-)
2) GIF has advantages over JPEG in some areas but is unsatisfactory because :-
1) Limited to 8 bit colour.
2) Patented *VARIANT* of algorithm - had compuserve known they
could have avoided the problem. but thats submarine patents
for you.
We need a replacement for GIF because JPEG is no use for editing, each compress/
decompress cycle degrades the image quality.We could use lossless JPEG but
that is a different story.
Neither format has gamma correction values built into the system which is a pain
for browsers like Arena which do gama correction themselves.
Compuserve (and many others) are kicking arround a spec for a GIF24 standard.
I think we should let them get on with it :-)
--
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Not Speaking for anyone else.
