Re: Inlined image format
andyh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
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From: andyh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Inlined image format
To: sanders@BSDI.COM (Tony Sanders)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 21:47:23 GMT
Cc: dcmartin@library.ucsf.edu, www-talk@www0.cern.ch
In-reply-to: <199401252122.PAA01774@austin.BSDI.COM>; from "Tony Sanders" at Jan 25, 94 3:22 pm
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As a (still learng) ) HTML programmer, could I just request one
possible extension for a future version of Mosaic, and that's JPEG
handling?
For a specific (but very useful) category of images, they're very
useful, basically because they can be far smaller as long as you don't
mind a few artefacts. It's not at all hard to make up very effective
thumbnails in a couple of K. Since bandwidth will always lag behind
storage, I think this is quite significant for the 'Web.
The code for handling JPEG is freely available for a variety of
platforms so it shouldn't be that hard to build in with the GIF and
xbm code.
Besides, if we've got inline JPEGs, we're about 10% of the way to
inline MPEG :-)
Just my two penn'oth
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