12 May
2004
12 May
'04
11:28 a.m.
On 2004-05-12 03:50:27 +0100 Dennis Dryden ddryden@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 00:45, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
[...] PNG or GIF would have surely been a better choice (and probably resulted in a smaller file too)
^^^^^^^^^^^
The guy had been slashdoted, id use the low quality/low bandwidth image format as well ;). [...]
Large blocks of solid colour should compress fairly well with PNG's zlib-style compression, maybe even better than jpg because of the sharp edges. I think Wayne probably had it right.
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