The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:41:43 UTC, wrote:

Why would lossy compression of images, which can reduce image file
size by a factor of say 8, make little difference?
Because most of them are lossily compressed already?

doesnt make any difference to the fact that one can greatly reduce
file size by further (lossy) compression


Why not replace all images with a line saying 'here used to be an image
here' and be done with it?

I used to when on dialup, but a lot of pages dont render acceptably if
you do that today. Plus pictures do have their use!


NT