<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</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;">
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> GIF is extremely limited in color range as it _only_ supports<br>
> 8 bit indexed colors (a palette of 256 colors from 16 million)<br>
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</div>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 inability<br>
to use GIF for a long time. Web browsers didn't take that long to pick<br>
up support for the PNG format, and it was (is!) far, far superior...<br clear="all"><br></blockquote></div><br>Um. You're showing your youth :D We were stuck with gif's for a decade before png was a standard in browsers and even then IE took longer to support it.<br>
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