keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me why DoCoMo decided to go with GIF format with iMode as
>opposed to JPEG or PNG? There seems little sense in this, either
>technically or economically.
Possibilities:
1) smaller files size (for icons and limited/flat colour files) than jpeg.
2) they can be made to flash/move. Horribly, but that is what many here
want.... .png could not (at launch time, at least)
3) They had no idea the service would be such a success and did not
envisage colour screens, high bandwidth availability, etc...
4) take less time to display on the original low cpu speed handsets......
(???)
5) Take less firmware code to process - again maybe relevant on the
original handsets....
6) .png was still not mainstream when the service was launched.
nick
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Received on Fri Oct 19 06:06:56 2001