Re: final version of the new logo needed
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 01:17:33AM +0100, Matt Kern wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> > At the risk of starting a flame war, why do we need gif? It seems to me
> > to be a violation of our general principles to push a format that cannot
> > be produced with free software. Ok, I know there are subtleties about
> > compressed vs. non-compressed, but even if *we* do the correct thing,
> > using gifs promotes the idea that gifs are okay, and most people will
> > not observe the way we wriggled around the patent issue.
>
> I really have to here-here this. Are there any browsers that don't
> understand JPEGs? I will sleep easier knowing I haven't helped push a
> format we can't legally create in some parts of the world without a
> licence. I am quite disappointed to discover that the Debian pages use
> gifs exclusively :((((
>
The problem with jpeg is that anything with sharp boundaries, like text,
gets distorted.
Jay Treacy
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