Hello Uffe
On 22-Apr-99, you wrote:
>
> In a message of 22-Apr-99 Andreas Frank wrote:
>
>> I won't convert thousands of images. MSIE and NS and _nearly_ all other
>> programs dealing with JPEG support the Exif2-Format.
>> Exif2 is not a new format, even good old AdPro supports it.
>> BTW, it IS a "real" JPEG. Probably better than a "normal" JPEG.
>
> If ADPro supports it, it should be fairly easy to convert them - even
> though you have thousands of them.
Maybe I'm not getting the point here. I remember this JPEG Exif2 started with
one person asking if V will support this in the future. He got an answer that
Olli shouldn't waste his time on a format that MSIE and NS doesn't support
(answer by you), now it turned out that MSIE and NS do support it, and you say
people should start converting the format to another format. Surely that will
help for the time being, and I can see Olli not wanting to make major changes
to a near finished version of V, but can't we just leave the question as it
was: Will V support JPEG Exif2? Maybe not in version 3, but maybe in a future
update? Why not let Olli decide for himself what to waste his time on and what
not.
Maybe worth considering, JPEG Exif2 being a format used by Digital Cameras,
and Digital Cameras becoming more common, and the major Browsers (on other
platforms) already supporting this format, it won't be long before more and
more webpages appear using the format. I would say that NS and MSIE users
won't care if a handfull of Amiga-users can't see their pictures on the
web-pages, and would therefore not convert them to a format those Amiga users
can read.
Dirk
