Re: GIF royalties

From: michael spindler (mspin@halcyon.com)
Date: 01/06/95


On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Marshall Kragen wrote:

> The difficulty with switching to JPEG is I am not sure it can be
> incorporated into and read by HTML documents such as on the WWW, on which
> virtually all online graphics are now GIFs.

        JPG format is compatable with the Web and HTML. I have already
seen it on several NASA/JPL sites, and also on the Playboy <grin> WWW. I
would still wager the sites currently using .GIF format will
switch/convert to .JPG if they are forced to pay license fees.

Michael Spindler Infopros Research & Consulting
mspin@halcyon.com Seattle, WA 206-224-7543



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