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GIF in HOWTOs

Hello,

Unless you have been vacationing on Mars the last few years most of you
would know that there has been quite a bit of flap about the LWZ patent
used in the GIF format.

Also in the HTML rendered HOWTOs there are the 3 next.gif, prev.gif
and toc.gif used as hyperlinks. Is this a good idea?

It might be tempting to use PNG but sadly not all browsers support
this format. Another alternative is plain text, saves time and space
too.

This is yet another solution, a middle ground, using tables and ascii:
---start---
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
   <meta name="Author" content="Stein Gjoen">
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) [Netscape]">
   <title>navi</title>
</head>
<body>
&nbsp;
<br>&nbsp;
<br>&nbsp;
<br>&nbsp;
<br>&nbsp;
<table BORDER COLS=3 WIDTH="100" >
<tr>
<td><b><tt><font size=+3><a href="#test">&lt;</a></font></tt></b></td>

<td><b><tt><font size=+3><a href="#test">></a></font></tt></b></td>

<td><b><tt><font size=+3><a href="#test">^</a></font></tt></b></td>
</tr>
</table>

<br>&nbsp;
<p><a NAME="test"></a>
</body>
</html>
--- end ---

Comments?

Regards,
   Stein Gjoen


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