30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
4:51 p.m.
On 30/08/11 4:14 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 08/29/2011 08:49 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
Nobody is disagreeing with you on such obvious cases.
But those are the ones we're talking about.
Then, since nobody disagrees with you on JFIF, PNG and GIF, why is this
thread continuing?
Maybe it's because your summary of the situation (use these three or be
deservedly screwed) is over-simple.
Image processing and archiving (not to mention file preservation in
general) goes far, far beyond this handful of web-oriented formats. In
fact JFIF, PNG and GIF cannot even _represent_ many of the images that
millions of people use every day.
--Toby
no, Toby and I are speculating that technical know-how
and literacy
could
lose out to the forces of idiocy.
Well...with that I cannot disagree. But, I have to think that JFIF,
PNG, and GIF file specs should be able to survive If people are saving
images in weird, undocumented, known-by-a-handful-of-people image
formats, they're effectively screwing themselves (and their images) in
the future.
All the smart people in the world can't save idiots from themselves.
Much of the world is dysfunctional due to stupidity; there will always
be some casualties because of this.
-Dave