Re: late draft of the 1.0 Clarifications

Mitra (mitra@earth.path.net)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:29:46 -0800

At 12:02 PM 11/27/95, J Gwinner/VisNet, I wrote:
>>>I for one prsser the use of jpeg files<<
>
>You absolutely have to have a lossly and a lossless compression image format.
>Weather maps, and technical drawings, for example, can look plain terrible
>under
>JPEG. (the lines can disappear).

Is this really a requirement for both Lossy and Lossless compression, or is
it a requirement for a image format that can be tuned to both. Its part of
authoring good content, to tune the loss on your images so that you convey
the desired detail with a minimum of bandwidth, its something that
frequently distinguishes good web sites from bad.

- Mitra

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