16 Aug
2006
16 Aug
'06
12:42 p.m.
On 8/16/2006 at 3:33 PM Segin wrote:
Why won't we jusr all switch to PNG, which is
lossless, and don't give
me that "PNG is lossy" crap, otherwise everytime I untar a .tar.gz
archive i should have lots of missing bits in my source code, because
PNG uses the exact same alghorithm found in PKZIP and gzip.
Excuse me? I don't think anyone said PNG is lossy, did they? IIRC, PNG
was developed as an alternative to GIF (which is also lossless). My remark
about JPEG being lossy was, I believe, valid.
The only problem I can see with PNG is some older software doesn't support
it, where TIFF and GIF support's been around for a very long time. But
there's always conversion software, if need be.
Cheers,
Chuck