> Very quick and dirty patch. This is intended to generate a discussion > on the applicability of farbfeld in sent. I can polish the patch > later depending on the outcome of the discussion.
Personally I don't see the advantage of using farbfeld over png. To me this introduces a obstacle when using sent. I currently own no tools that support farbfeld and I doubt any of my tools will support it. I suspect that farbfeld will not gain a widespread use/support. Your images will most likely exist in other formats; you have essentially introduced another step when using images in sent. Therefore I would no longer consider sent being a 'easy' tool to use as I would likely first have to find a tool to convert my images into *.ff. It seems like this patch only handles uncompressed farbfeld images, I imagine that the size of a presentation would quickly become unnecessarily large. Sure you could add other tools to handle compression, which will result in added complexity/dependencies in the project. I see nothing but downsides to using farbfeld exclusively.
