In article <98rm40hhssc2d14g1u8c6fnbfrt1a801u2@4ax.com> , IMBJR 
<no### [at] spamhere>  wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:07:43 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
> <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>>
>>But JPEG 2000 is not a fix, it is a problem: It fails the fundamental design
>>goal of any exchange format: Simplicity.
>
> Hahahaha! Like JPEG is simple. Ever tried reading the standard. Lord
> its a mind-poker!

I implemented an encoder a few years ago without any problems.  Reading it
is no big deal once one gets used to the fact that the format decoding is
specified, but not the encoding process itself.  Of course, to someone
thinking JPEG is complex, JPEG 2000 must appear no different....

>>Both JPEG and PNG offer a simple
>>interchange format, JPEG 2000 is far from simple on the other hand.  That it
>>offeres better lossy compression, well, that is to be expected from a format
>>created many years later, isn't it? ;-)
>
> Yes, so perhaps its time to stop nannying people and allow them to use
> it to improve the appearance of images they post

Nobody did.

>>Either way, and even if you don't agree with me, there are two facts that
>>won't change soon:
>>The web news view vill only support the three standard web image formats
>>(GIF, PNG and JPEG).
>
> So you are going stall on this because of more inertia - the lack of
> enthusiasm to get it working right, to figure a solution out. You are
> going to let a minor thing like that get in the way?

So you question my "enthusiasm to get [the web news view] working right"?
You are entitled to your opinion, but I really think you just want a flame
war.  Probably that is why you posted the image in the first place.

Next time, take such thing to povray.off-topic, not povray.general or p.b.i!

Guess I will have to enable your killfile entry again.  Just noticed I had
you in there before, but as you hadn't caused conflict in any groups I read
for a long time, your entry was inactive...

    Thorsten

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