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RE: [ECS] Icon Question Wizard Pendleton Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:32:21 -0500

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In many cases, I'd prefer gif because it supports animation and
transparency, but the browser should take any kind of supported multimedia
file including gif, jpg, bmp, png, tiff pictures and avi, mpeg, qt, rm
movies, and even wav, midi, aiff sound files.

Scott Reston wrote:

i agree that .gifs are trimmer for non-organic images (icons as opposed to
photo-ish pics), but remember what we are dealing with: for the most part,
we'll be 
hitting ECS on a local network where the file size won't be too big a
deal...

scott reston
scott@theRestons.com
http://theRestons.com/scott/


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:23:56 -0500, Kevin Keast wrote:

>As a web page programmer are .jpg graphics what is best for icons?  Most
>icons are graphics not photos and GIF format would be faster loading and
>better for this purpose, just as most of the logos you see on the web are.
>I would recommend this format unless people plan to use photo images.  Just
>a thought.

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