Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
Images on the Web
- gif:
Graphics Interchange Format
- 8-bit color, transparent areas; patent cloud
- jpeg:
Joint Photographic Expert Group
- lossy compression for photos, not line art
- tiff:
Tagged Image File Format
- issues over tag standardization
- png:
Portable Network Graphics
- calibration, hypertext links
The State of Web Standards
(L.Masinter)