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Re: CF: win32 client and XPM
> 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.
> Remember, Windooze is not the only platform. Make it simple for
> everybody, not just for Windows-Programmers.
I too more or less agree with this. THe format of the
images sent from the server should be in the simplest,
*least bandwidth* impacting format. We should highly prize
performance over ease of implementation (server side).
-b.t.
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