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Given recent JPG rumors this is a start for a listing of proprietry formats, their open source replacements and the known limitations of the open source replacement.
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Given recent JPG rumors this is a start for a listing of proprietry formats, their open source replacements and the known limitations of the open source replacement.

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Given recent JPG rumors this is a start for a listing of proprietry formats, their open source replacements and the known limitations of the open source replacement.

image formats

 jpeg

 gif

 png

 tiff

office formats

 doc

 xls

 ppt

 mdb

 (project)

video formats

 mov

 avi

 mpeg

 divx

 readvideo

audio formats

 mp3

 ogg

vector formats

 svg

 (ms clipart)

 pdf

animation formats

 swf

3d formats

 ...


slashdot JPG article: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/157217.shtml?tid=155

Patent free ["GIFs"] are possible... so long as you don't use compression (which makes them fairly pointless)

PNG can replace GIF, i've seen some IE troubles does carefully specifying MIME types resolve this?

regarding gif: http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html

["JPEG2000"] ?

Internet Eplorer STILL does not render transparent ["PNGs"] properly

["JPEG2000"]: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=["JPEG2000"]

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html [gnu.org]

PNG, however, uses the same algorithm that gzip does. It's an unencumbered format for lossless compression, and the browser support for the basic features is already there! People complain about how the PNG support in old ["IEs"] and suchforth isn't very good, but they're usually talking about the features of PNG that GIF doesn't have. PNG files tend to be smaller than their GIF counterparts, and they even support alpha channels! (from http://www.gnuheter.com/article.php?sid=1673)

possible alternative to jpg: http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ no guarantees though, i've never heard of this before.

oooh JPEG committee are gunna find prior art: http://www.jpeg.org/newsrel1.htm