14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
8:39 a.m.
On 8/14/2006 at 11:29 AM Jason McBrien wrote:
All somewhat recent browsers support it, most recent
OSes support it
natively. Better lossless compression than TIFF. Good metadata support.
Open source and not patent encumbered like TIFF (it uses LZW compression.)
Didn't the patent on LZW expire in 2003? No encumbrance there.
Cheers,
Chuck