png, really?

Png, according to wikipedia is a "lossless data compression"and at last but not at least "is an image-file format not requiring a patent license".

thanks hotshot

you should use high quality jpegs, will look pretty much identical for 1/10th file size

You re right but jpeg is not a free format. Maybe I should look for a free "destructor compressing" format but I hope that anybody on ESR get DSL.

sorry I must be ignorant here, what do you mean its not free?

It's free in "the freedom way", not "the $0 way" (even if somtimes both are closed). Wikipedia said : "A free file format is a file format whose full specification is freely available and for which there are no restrictions (e.g. legal or technical) on its use.".

It's a little hard to explain but if you only use non-free format with non-free software, there is no guarantee you will be able to read YOUR file in the futur. With free formats, you really own your file.

I'm not a GNU/linux guru of whatever.

weird, never heard anyone avoid using jpeg for those reasons, for example gimp is free, and you can save to jpeg with that, and there is no way anyone can stop you from opening your jpeg files in the future or demand ownership of them, why do you thing jpegs are used extensively all other the web by both personal and commercial sites?

Jpeg is maybe not the best example but I know someone who wrote his thesis on microsoft word a long time ago. Today he just can't read it.

If you build a machine with a screen, you can't make it read Jpeg except if you paid.

You don't own a non-free format file; it own you.


Why non-free format are widely used ? Because big companies used people's ignorance (or "i don't care") to appear as indispensable.

its a bad example idd cause its kind complicated with jpeg, but took a look into wiki and found this
In February 2006, the United States Patent and Trademark Office agreed to re-examine Forgent's JPEG patent at the request of the Public Patent Foundation.[20] On May 26, 2006 the USPTO found the patent invalid based on prior art. The USPTO also found that Forgent knew about the prior art, and did not tell the Patent Office, making any appeal to reinstate the patent highly unlikely to succeed.

I know, that's why I said "Jpeg is maybe not the best example". I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues and until it won't be considered as free by everyone, I will roughly consider it as roughly non-free.

Trying to bring down the website by bandwidth hogging, are we?

If your pictures are viewed a 1000 times each, that's 50GB of data transfer just for your pictures.

As for being future proof. It's been the biggest image format for 15 years, I don't think the ability to view it will be lost anytime soon.

It's a good gallery but next time you should reconsider your file format.

About the size, I'm agree. I basically just didn't search a lot about the format (and nothing say that I won't change it).

bit dark innit?

you have to be kidding, you think you JPEGs are gonna stop working? these images are ridiculously big when they could be < 100kb

"all pics on WTFPL v2 License"

wtf how can i see the gallery there? oO

thx for help :)

I meant "under" this licence.