[X Newbies] jpegs, etc.

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 14:47 Canada/Eastern, Jon Warms wrote:

> Jpegs are jpegs.

Unfortunately, that's very far from the truth. Very simply:

"Strictly speaking, JPEG refers only to a family of compression 
algorithms;
it does *not* refer to a specific image file format.  The JPEG 
committee was
prevented from defining a file format by turf wars within the 
international
standards organizations"

(Further details at 
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-14.html>.)

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