Re: FAQ list

[William Lippe <lippe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Well, they aren't highly important pictures, so just Jpeg the 
heck out of 'em.  For those of you who don't know, Jpeg is an alternate 
form of image compression (one among dozens), and works (I believe) on 
the principle of "the human eye can barely tell the difference between 
these two colors, or doesn't care, so let's make'm equivalent"..  a 200K 
Gif can easily be an 80K jpeg, which is good news for 2400ers and people 
with small HD's..

On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Barry Schaede wrote:

> Tim had mentioned using GIF's for some portion of the gopher.  No not the 
> individual pictures of the listers.  I believe it was in reference to 
> tablature or notation.  Gif's are all fine and dandy but they download 
> slowly at 2400 baud (many peoples default) and eat hard disk space.  I 
> would caution against including any essential info in GIF's so that 
> handicapped access can be preserved.  I did download Tim's pics.  (at 
> 14400)  Not bad in monochrome VGA.  FJM
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