From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Jul 18 03:35:28 2010 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:32:52 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <927940731.20100718103252@hol.gr> To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... In-Reply-To: <201007181013.39265.oak@helsinkinet.fi> References: <2d64e795294918b05c6ec6ea3bc731b7-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYPXkF0A1Y6XF1YSUYAWVNeQw==-webmailer2@server08.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <125159128.20100717121439@hol.gr> <201007181013.39265.oak@helsinkinet.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10739/Wed Apr 14 06:54:30 2010 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o6I7ZSUP003803 Hello Eero, Sunday, July 18, 2010, 10:13:39 AM, you wrote: > According to this only 256 colors can be used per image block although > the amount of colors in the whole image can be larger. But the page also > says that most (image creation) programs don't support more colors for > gifs and that it's impractical to use them. > So I don't think they're common on the www-pages and a browser, especially > for something like Atari machines where performance and memory usage is > more important, could treat & store them as 8-bit... This is kind of a moot point. If netsurf's gif loading code already supports the full proper gif spec (with more than 1 palette per block), then it's going to render to a 24 bit surface. Meaning that m0n0 will have to rip out the code and replace it with a simpler one, and compatible. Not a bright move when you're porting a thousands-lines-of-code project and you want to add a GEM interface if you ask me... -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr