On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:52, Sam Heard wrote: > Dear All > > I have been working with DV_MULTIMEDIA and feel that the thumbnail > feature should be a JPEG rather than a DV_MULTIMEDIA. > > I believe this is the way to go as although it restricts the thumbnail > to an image - it means that everyone can view the thumbnails. It also > means we do not have a cyclical definition. > > The danger is fixing to a particular technology - but I think in this > case it is worth it. > > Thoughts?
I believe that fixing 'thumbnail' to a specific technology makes sense. I haven't been able to come up with another function that could be equated with thumbnail other than 'viewing a reduced size image'. Certainly you could have portions/compressions of other multimedia content but they would be called summaries, extracts, abstracts, etc. of the content. I do think if we are going to specify a technology it should be as open as possible. Portable Network Graphics(.PNG) works everywhere and works equally well with either line or continuous tone image data. If anyone wants to review the various options here is a quick overview: http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19997/0/page/3 Cheers, -- Tim Cook Key ID 9ACDB673 @ http://www.keyserver.net/en/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050314/2bef1a30/attachment.asc>
