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[Joe Buck]

> >>>>> Gerald Pfeifer writes:
>  Gerald> o I noticed that there are some (orange) pixels on the outside of
>  Gerald> the egg; also the horns have some non-white pixels.

> >>>>> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
>  > 	I think that some of this is due to the lossy JPEG algorithm.  GIF
>  > probably would be better for art like this, but there are patent problems
>  > with the GIF format preventing its use.

If this is the problem, whoever generated the JPEG must have used an
extremely low quality setting.  JPEG's loss is controllable.  And GIF
is not lossless, because the step of quantizing to a 256-color palette
causes far more loss for a full-color image than JPEG does.

> A high-quality (lower compression) JPEG is just as good as GIF.  And then
> there's PNG...:)

Yes, except for animations PNG totally dominates GIF (except that only the
latest browser versions support it).