[Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs

[Rich]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 10:32 pm, erich wrote:

> One reason is it's inefficiency. It takes many more Kbytes to  
> display something in a *.tiff than in, for example, a *.jpg.
>          I  require  that my students send me homwork scans in  
> *.jpg format.
> Every once in a while, one iof them trips up, and sends a *tiff. A
> single page homework scan in *.tiff can be over 10Mbytes.

TIFF is just a container type, exactly like JFIF. It can be JPEG  
compressed, lossless compressed, or raw; conversely, JFIF can be  
lossless; it doesn't *have* to contain a JPEG image.

Characterising TIFF as being the embodiment of inefficiency is just  
plain wrong. (Or did you mean "its"?)

R.

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> Erich
> Claude Rubinson wrote:
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>> I just discovered that Firefox won't render TIFFs internally, instead
>> calling out to a helper app.  That surprised me.  Anybody know why?
>> Do other browsers render TIFFs?
>>
>> Claude
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