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PNGOUT: Progressive mode?
- Hi Ken,
what do you think about adding a switch to create progressive PNGs? Would it need much work to support this output mode? Or do you think, non-progressive is better, because it's smaller? But progressive mode would shorten the download time needed for having a first impression of the picture. - Progressive mode is for JPEG files. For PNG, it's called "Adam7" interlacing. I'm just not a fan of these modes because it requires more CPU time to decode and messier code. I think a better solution is thumbnails... but that's probably because I'm a programmer and not a web designer... it is only natural for me to want to pass off the ugly work to other people : ) If I was to implement this, it would probably take several hours - I just don't feel like doing it anytime soon.