Re: [HIG] Mini-Guidelines style

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 11:09 AM -0700 8/14/01, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 14Aug2001 11:27AM (+0100), Calum Benson wrote:
>  > colin z robertson wrote:
>  > > Do we want to be PNG purists here?
> >  Being pragmatic, I'd say 'no', because we got a shedload of complaints
> >  from people who read our initial draft of the usability report for whom
> >  some PNGs wouldn't display properly (NS 4.x on Solaris, and IE-anything
> >  on Windoze), and we ended up having to re-do most of them as GIFs or
> >  JPGs.  So whilst I agree with the sentiment, it might end up causing us
> >  extra work.
>
> Using JPEGs should be fine as well, they don't have patent problems.

Converting PNG to JPEG should be pretty easy; going the opposite 
direction will be also easy but slightly lossy.  Let's go with PNGs 
for now and convert 'em to JPEG if we run into unfixable problems.

Adam
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