<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Pat Regan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thehead@patshead.com">thehead@patshead.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:51:27 -0400<br>
<div class="im">"Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> Yes, I always hated GIF for that. I always wondered, too, why people<br>
> were so angry over the patent issues with GIF and the compression that<br>
> it employed. I thought that there was no great loss with the<br>
> inability to use GIF for a long time. Web browsers didn't take that<br>
> long to pick up support for the PNG format, and it was (is!) far, far<br>
> superior...<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I don't know about PNGs being "far" superior to GIFs. If it weren't<br>
for animated GIF files I wouldn't have been able to create a spinning<br>
version of my head 10 years ago!<br>
<br>
<a href="http://patshead.com/images/mediumhead.gif" target="_blank">http://patshead.com/images/mediumhead.gif</a><br></blockquote><div><br>And who could forget hampsterdance -> <a href="http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm">http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm</a><br>
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