Yes, I can see the lightness and popularity of GIF would have made it an
obvious choice in the early days of iMode.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick May" <nick@kyushu.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: iMode on GIF
> 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 06:20:00 2001