"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> > Hmm, I vote no. Sorry to be the one nay-sayer here. Given the past
> > problems of
> > different applications not reading the embedded gamma of .png images
> > correctly,
> > is this a good idea?  Or am I missing something that I should know about?
> >
> > Is this idea based purely on image quality (.png vs. .jpeg, for example)?
>
> I don't think the default file type should be one that uses lossy
> compression. However, I agree that the gamma confusion makes PNG less than
> ideal. I'm not sure there's a better format though.

Not unless we want to get into the "business" of promoting one HDR format over
another, which...  well, let's just say that standards wars probably aren't the
best usage of anyone's time here, with the possible exclusion of Warp. :-D

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