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Re: CF: win32 client and XPM

Christian Stieber wrote:
> I think one should use a _simple_, easy to read image format on the
> server, to easy client implementation. Just because platform foo
> supports "PNG" as a native format doesn't mean we should use PNG ---
> after all, platform bar probably supports YYT as it's native format,
> so why not add YYT as well? PNG is a lot more difficult to read, so
> using PNG instead of XPM means that the client implementation for _one_
> platform is slightly simplified (since no image conversion is needed),
> while adding a lot more work for all the other client programmers.

For the record, PNG stands for "Portable Network Graphics".  In theory,
by choosing PNG, you ARE choosing a general, cross-platform solution.
Plus, you would get the color depth, transparency, and compression
benefits of the PNG format.

That said, I agree that sticking with XPM would be a more simple (and in
this case, better) solution.

-ivan

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