[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [svlug] EVENT: Burn All GIFs Day.

[Chris Cox]

Sorry about the confusion....my reply was in a slightly altered context
where the conversation had moved to discussing other SW which might
be implicated.  I just wanted to point out that LZW isn't used
everywhere.

yes...GIF problem will remain (I guess until 2003).
Chris

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> >
> > The good news is there are other LZ (not LZW) derivatives which are as good
> > if not better than LZW and therefore don't come under this copyright.
> > Gzip comes to mind.
> >
> > Compress uses LZ....I don't think it uses LZW (?).
> 
> Unfortunately, this won't help the GIF problem.  If you compress GIF's
> using a different algorithm, Netscape and IE won't be able to read them
> -
> so we might as well abandon GIF and go to PNG - which is undoubtedly a
> superior format - and *somewhat* supported by more recent versions of
> Netscape and IE.