Re: Mono and GNOME. The long reply.

From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
To: tigert ximian com (Tuomas Kuosmanen)
Cc: grahame azale net (Grahame Bowland), alan redhat com (Alan Cox), gnome-hackers gnome org (GNOME Hackers), gnome-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Mono and GNOME. The long reply.
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:11:49 -0500 (EST)

>     If, for example they created a class that dealt entirely with GIF 
>     images specifically there are ways around it; didn't someone implement 
>     GIF without using LZW?
> 
> ..which gives you a 100k .gif instead of the 3k one since it is not
> compressed at all, making it practically useless. You dont want to put
> those GIFs on your website.

If you are using the proper tools they are not uncompressed they are RLE
compressed, which for many applications actually comes within 5% of the
LZW one.

Alan

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