Re: GD code
| From: | Marko Karppinen | Date: | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 08:34:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GD code | ||
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I don't actually think that code is useful at all.
My reasoning:
- main advantage of the jpeg format is 24bit colors. the
code I saw won't give that to us. Instead, we get
worst of both worlds -- 8bit color with lossy compression.
- JPEG isn't useful for the kind of imagery usually produced
by GD. Sure, if we include a photo, it's okay, but the
fact that the photo still has to be 8bit introduces
dithering and/or banding that essentially kills the JPEG
compression algorithm. So, no luck there either.
- The marketing-guy perspective for this is that we shouldn't
introduce a feature we know will suck and be of use in few
situations. Bottom line: people are going to be saying
"PHP's JPEG support? It sucks so bad" for ages if we go
with this
Marko
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