30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
5:29 p.m.
On 08/30/2011 07:51 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
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?
Because you keep disagreeing.
> 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
Nobody is disagreeing with you on such obvious cases. Maybe it's because your summary of the situation
(use these three or be
deservedly screwed) is over-simple.
Yes it is, because it doesn't need to be complex. Why does it have
to be any more complicated than "don't use weird unsupportable
undocumented proprietary stuff"?
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.
"Web-oriented formats"? Every one of them predates "the web" by
years.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL