Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Graphics - PNG Versus GIF

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Malgent
on October 4, 2007
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In this tip I will explore the two main choices of graphic format that can be used on the Web to represent simple graphics, schemas or logos:

  • GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) was developed in the late 1980’s and it is still widely used.
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics) was developed around 1995, became a W3C recommendation in 1996, and has been widely implemented in most Web browsers as soon as 1998.

GIF

The GIF format is a format which compresses files using an algorithm called LZW, which keep traces of the colors and helps to reduce the size of the file.

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XHTML Friends Network

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Malgent
on October 1, 2007
in Reference and code
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Xhtml Friends Network

XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their href tags, such as:

a href="http://malagent.com" rel="friend met"

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