Deploying New Image Formats on the Web
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If I want to put various formats of images on my blogger.com site (or other similar service) today, assuming some syntax was added to HTML to allow it, I can do that immediately. I don't have to wait N years for the people who run blogger.com to update their software.
This is a problem often run into between sys admins who run their own servers and the rest of use who don't. They forgot that the majority of users don't run their own servers.
Most users who don't run their own servers also don't know a thing about image formats - so the point may be moot. :-)
In fact, this is why this problem should be automated. Most blogs are serving uncompressed images, which are resized on the client - worst of all cases.
Hmmm, If I put multiple image tags with various formats that may or may not work on different browsers I'll get lots of broken image boxes on my page. Not quite "good to go" I think. No?
> Most users who don't run their own servers also don't know a thing about image formats
Really? I suspect that very few web designers know how to run a server but all of them know the differences between .png, .gif, .jpg and now whatever is needed for HD-DPI