On 10/2/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Most browsers don't support inline display of TIFF images.
May I suggest that TIFF is not really a useful format in the context of web-publishing? The TIFF format is a fairly advanced type of file that if properly used is inclusive of features such as layers and color space information for transformation between different medias such as video, film and paper. The chromatic precision of a tiff can go up from 1bit per pixel to 32 bpp and more if additional layers, sometimes containing non visual information, are added. These are all very useful features in some contexts but I sincerely doubt their usefulness in a context such as the web and mediawiki. JPGs, PNGs and SVGs should cover all the needs for this context. Support should be concentrated on those formats, making sure all their features are properly handled.
My two eurocents.
Ciao!
Manu