Patents are getting a little out of hand if you ask me (I know this one was 17 years ago but it seems to fit in well with the sudden fload of them as of late)

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63200,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

GOOD RIDDANCE !!!


PNG suffers less when optimised.

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
What is it

PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel for transparency. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits per component (up to 48bit images for RGB, or 64bit for RGBA).

http://www.atalasoft.com/PNG.aspx

Benefits of the PNG Image Format

btw, Indians discovered the mathmatical value of Zero. So its time everyone in the world using digital format files and data transfer networks and digital devices start payin up royalty to the Indian government.

LMAO

PNGs are nice

gotta remeber that jpeg expires in october and until then just hold your beath