Monthly Archives: March 2009

Image Information at your Fingertips

First there were PDAs, then cellphones and then the merger of cellphones+PDAs variously known as Smart Mobile devices or Smart Phones. All are related to what was promised a long time ago - Preferred Information At your Fingertips or PIAF devices. Now after several innovative and ersatz tries by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm [...]

RIP JPEG2000

JPEG2000 has shrivelled and not quite died but certainly is not what it promised to be as a replacement for the JPEG image format. Here are the ugly facts:

Graphics Support in the Major Browsers

Web Standard
IE8
Firefox 3.x
Chrome 1.
Opera 9.6
Safari 4

JPEG2000
No
No
No
No
No

SMIL
Dropped?
3.1
No
No
No

SVG (see here for browser tests)
None
60.4%
61.9%
94.2%
64.2%

Flash Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Browsers used in these tests (except SVG) [...]