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JPG vs GIF (Popularity:  )
http://www.webwitchery.com/articles/format/
A comprehensive article on the differences between the file formats.
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Graphics Interchange Format Specifications (Popularity: )
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html
Specifications to various graphics formats, including GIF, JPG, DWG, PCX and several others, from Edinburgh University.
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Burn All GIFs (Popularity: )
http://burnallgifs.org/
Information on upgrading a web site from the patent-encumbered GIF format to freely available graphics.
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US4558302 Patent (Popularity: )
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US04558302__
The US patent covering the LZW compression algorithm used in GIF images.
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GIF Economy: A Cautionary Tale (Popularity: )
http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html
Article on the GIF controversy seen from a software developer's perspective. Includes original interviews, a historical perspective, up-to-date information and ...
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The gif2png Home Page (Popularity: )
http://catb.org/~esr/gif2png/
The program converts files from the Graphic Interchange Format to Portable Network Graphics. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including ...
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Graphics Interchange Format (Popularity: )
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif87.txt
Original specification describing the file layout as originated by CompuServe. Also known as Gif87a.
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Graphics Interchange Format (Popularity: )
http://256.com/gray/docs/gifspecs/
Provides detailed specification of file layout, encoding and decoding algorithm, and color space model for gif89a.
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Pigdog Journal (Laughable Technology) -- Unisys Is a Bunch of Retards (Popularity: )
http://pigdog.org/auto/laughable_technology/link/855.html
"Eventually, with this pressure, EVERYONE is going to ditch GIF in favor of PNG. Web folks will stop asking image ...
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Unisys Not Suing (most) Webmasters for Using GIFs (Popularity: )
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/0143246.shtml
From Slashdot.org. "If you use GIF graphics created with certain freeware programs, your chosen program uses LZW compression to create ...
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Unisys Demanding License Fees (Popularity: )
http://mis.about.com/library/weekly/aa082999.htm
Unisys, the holder of the LZW data compression patent used in GIF formatted graphics, is taking a hardline against intranet ...
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PNG (Popularity: )
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Information, applications, and code relating to the PNG image format.
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PNG Specification (Popularity: )
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png-multi.html
The official W3C recommendation specification for PNG.
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The Story of PNG (Popularity: )
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/slashpng-1999.html
An article detailing the history of the PNG format.
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PNG-Tech (Popularity: )
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cosmin/pngtech/
A collection of comments, impressions, comparisons, experiments and ideas regarding the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format, and related technologies: ...
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MSDN - AlphaImageLoader Filter (Popularity: )
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/AlphaImageLoader.asp
Displays an image within the boundaries of the object and between the object background and content, with options to clip ...
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PNG Tips for Cartoonists (Popularity: )
http://hackles.org/etc/png.html
Article written to encourage cartoonists to use PNG and to share tips on exploiting PNG's strengths.
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PNG Resources of the Miscellaneous Persuasion (Popularity: )
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngmisc.html
Links to images, mailing lists, test images, PNG and image compression documents, comics and websites using PNGs, the official site, ...
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The Sad Story of PNG Gamma Correction (Popularity: )
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/
Explains how PNG gamma "correction" causes color mismatches with other colors on web pages.
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Independent JPEG Group (Popularity: )
http://www.ijg.org/
The Independent JPEG Group (IJG) is a group that writes and distributes a widely used free and open source library ...
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