Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,comp.arch.embedded Subject: Re: waveform display in browser Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <55B14FE8.3070806@electrooptical.net> <66t2ra1mebptuknfc16kc11ko5m07t4hfv@4ax.com> <7IKdnb8i8rB2BS_InZ2dnUU7-ScAAAAA@giganews.com> <7IKdnbgi8rAgLy_InZ2dnUU7-SednZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1437775684 4781 67.130.15.94 (24 Jul 2015 22:08:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:08:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:21517 On 2015-07-24, Tim Wescott wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:15:21 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Implementing LZW in an FPGA would be a daunting, but people have done >> it. > > I'm not so sure it would be all that bad, if you were writing > something specific to GIF format. I think you're right. It sounded nasty to me based on the descriptions of the LZW that I remember, but according to Google there have been a lot of people who've done it. >>> I'll even do it for you -- if you wait until November for me to get >>> started on it. > > My offer still stands, GIF or TIFF. John's looking at SVG, which isn't a > bad choice if it's universal. SVG is pretty nice, but until the past couple years, SVG support in browsers was pretty iffy. If you don't have to support old browser versions, SVG is worth looking at. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! over in west at Philadelphia a puppy is gmail.com vomiting ...