(In reply to Tony from comment #61) > 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.
To be fair, PNG also supports higher bit depths, and also compresses a little bit better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673342 Title: [wishlist] Support displaying inline tiff images (to support mails fom Mac Mail) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/673342/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
