> But does it have to be LZW'd GIFs? Or, for that matter, does it _HAVE_ to
> be GIFs? If the purpose is to show the image within a browser, might you
> be able to use PNG or JPG? Or at the very least one of the run length
> encoded GIFs which, while significantly larger than LZW compressed
> GIFs, at least are not patent tainted.
PNG works in MSIE, but it may or may not work in Communicator 4.x. Depending
on the phase of the moon apparently. Mozilla supports it fully fortunately.
I get the impression there unisys was generally hassling people who used
run-time compression in GIF's. So, probably not a good idea for that reason.
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