Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/12/05 15:51

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Toby Inkster wrote:

> thedarkman wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to display .tif files but the normal code <imc src=this.tif"

Please post real validated code (clue: copy/paste) if you don't want
to waste people's time with discussing your typos.

> Most browsers only support the following file formats:
>
> * PNG
> * JPEG
> * GIF
> * XBM
>
> a few also support SVG, Windows Bitmaps and Windows Icon files, but don't
> count on it.

In the good old days of NCSA X Mosaic, we used to use postscript (.ps)
in <img...>, but support for that disappeared at some point, and
hasn't been seen since, as far as I can tell.

A pity, because it made vector format images feasible, long before
SVG.

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