image compression
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
image compression
Over the years, I've standardized on a JPEG compression factor of 15; I find that generally provides the best compromise between image quality and file size for most photographic images. Although I've done some ad-hoc testing that pointed to compression factor 15 as the sweet spot
image compression
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]