At 12:42 PM 8/14/00 +0200, you wrote:
> ><ZEALOT> I'm now disgusted with GIF images, if only because I'm tired of
> >living in an 8-bit color, 1-bit transparency world. I wouldn't stand for a
> >computer that ran with 256 colors, and I don't have to stand for an image
> >format that tops out at 256-colors and 1-bit transparency either. And has
> >terrifically bad compression either.</ZEALOT>
>
>But, on the other hand, is amazingly much simpler (you can quite easily
>write a GIF reader in a couple hundred lines of C
And then pay Unisys a minimum of ten cents per distribution of that reader,
even if you give it away: up to 40 cents if you sell it. No, thank
you. That's precisely why the 'Net community got together and developed
the open-standard, royalty-free PNG format to start with. I avoid .GIF
like the plague, and advise others to do the same.
_________________________________________________________________________
Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt
