L.D. Best wrote:
>
> I've stuck to
> GIF images whenever possible because of universality of browsers'
> ability to handle that format. I want to avoid PNG because apparantly
> not all browsers can handle that, I want to avoid JPG because of the
> need for Arachne to decode it to BMP, I want to avoid BMP because of the
> size -- so *what* alternative format[s] is/are available???
Hi LD;
I know that you have been paying attention, so I also know YOU know
about .ZBMs. And I understand that you would not consider it to be more
than a toy, due to it's lack of universal built-in-ness.
But, may I ask you and others to consider the following possibility
while we wait for the Unisys patent to expire:
Zipped bitmaps are 100% lossless and usually smaller than .GIFs.
Just about everyone has an unzip program.
That's the end of the review. <g>
What if we put together a little package that visitors to ZBM laden pages
might download to "upgrade" their browsers ?
Before we get into the nitty gritty of how to accomplish this upgrade,
particularly for Netscape, let's see how hopeless you feel the idea is.<G>
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