Re: Postel's law

From: paul c <toledobysea_at_ac.ooyah>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Message-ID: <I6DZj.161417$Cj7.125839_at_pd7urf2no>


Marshall wrote:
...
> The counter argument for me has always been JPEG. JPEG
> may actually be such a success *because* it's so technically
> difficult. You don't get shitty amateurs writing JPEG writers.
> They just use a library that already works, which was written
> by an actual expert. (Which is what the "E" in "JPEG" stands
> for anyway.) And JPEG is an enormously successful file
> format; there are probably more JPEG files on the web than
> HTML files.

Let's hear it for ETML! Received on Fri May 23 2008 - 19:26:00 CEST

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