[projectaon] Re: 01HH Map
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:52:42 +0200
On Monday 14 April 2008, David Davis wrote:
> Do we really need to worry about browsers which don't support GIF
> in 2008? What browsers would these be, and what OS would they
> conceivably be running on?
> Windows 3.1? :)
>
> PNG doesn't support layers, no.
> For off-line viewing, the format of choice for a map like this (where
> the text is rendered as real text, in a font)
> would be PDF (although - if you build it in PSP, I don't think you'll
> get that - you'll need to build it in Illustrator
> or similar).
> For online display with layers and real text, the new-fangled SVG
> would probably be the thing...
I fully agree that we do not need to use GIF instead of PNG anymore
since all contemporary browser support PNG. OTOH, SVG is only supported
by a few very recent browsers. I suggest to use JPEG for the maps
included in the books (just as we did with all other maps so far). We
can still provide a larger version of the map in some other format for
separate download. Still I think for the final versions of the maps
(regardless of the size) JPEG is still the most suitable format. Unless
we use extremely high compression nobody will notice a difference
between the JPEG version and the PNG version.
Of course JPEG must not be used for storing intermediate results, but
apparently Simon already knew that. So we are preaching to the
choir. :-)
Regards,
Ingo
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