I am a photographer, and as such work with graphics files. JEPEGs are limited to a 24-bit color depth. TIFFs have a 48-bit color depth. Anyone working in graphics would want to work with 48-bit images because they contain so much more information. However to make the files viewable in a Web browser, they must be dummied down to JEPEGs and lose much of their available information.
NASA publishes a lot of TIFFs 4K monitors are already common with Dell laptops and others, and 5K monitors are already becoming available. It'd be nice if Mozilla/Firefox came out with a browser ahead of the visual status quo rather than just keeping up with the past. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673342 Title: [wishlist] Support displaying inline tiff images (to support mails fom Mac Mail) Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Won't Fix Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird When a user of Apple Mac Mail pastes images in a email body, they are attached as tiff images (can't figure out why they didn't use png), Thunderbird doesn't know how to display these and just shows a big broken square instead. The files are available as attachments for download only. Here is the header from souch an email. Content-Type: image/tiff; name="PastedGraphic-6.tiff" Content-Description: PastedGraphic-6.tiff Content-Disposition: inline; filename="PastedGraphic-6.tiff"; size=31891; creation-date="Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:49:06 GMT"; modification-date="Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:49:06 GMT" Content-ID: <09F1CCA4-1E55-4571-9556-E4233A789F20> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/673342/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
