Re: Image formats deleted from 3.0?

Eric A. Perlman (ericp@well.com)
Tue, 4 Jul 1995 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, Bill Brooks wrote:

>
> HTML 1.0 specified that image formats should be one of .xbm or .gif.
> But I can't find anything in the 3.0 standard that says whether or not
> JPEG is a supported format. Was this intentional? Or was it just to get
> around the whole .gif vs. .png issue? Maybe it's in some other section
> than where I expected to find it. Help me out.

This has nothing to do with HTML. but browsers.

All browsers can display .xbm and .gif (prefered). New ones can display
JPEG.

-eric

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