Re: Thanks - they were BMP's

by "Steven Antonio" <santonio(at)delanet.com>

Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:38:09 -0400
To:	"HTML Writers' Guild" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	aol
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> It would appear that Netscape has a sense of humour failure with .bmp's,
> prefering .gif or .jpg

Mark,

FYI-  The BMP image format is not a registered MIME type on the internet and
therefore has little support or usage.  This is understandable since the BMP
image format is very large compared to JPEG, GIF, or PNG making it
impractical for the web applications.

Steve

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