file formats

image compression

Beyond JPEG

It’s surprising that the venerable JPEG image compression standard, which dates back to 1986, is still the best we can do for photographic image compression. I can’t remember when I encountered my first JPEG image, but JPEG didn’t appear to enter practical use until the early 90’

By Jeff Atwood ·
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image compression

Screenshots: JPEG vs. GIF (and PNG)

It constantly amazes me how many times I encounter pages where screenshots are inappropriately stored as JPEGs. Not to single Mike Gunderloy out, but there's yet another example in his recent article on configuring an ASP.NET 2.0 website [http://developer.com/net/asp/article.php/3569166]

By Jeff Atwood ·
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