Re: GIF announcement from CompuServe

Craig Bromberg (bromo@multimedia.timeinc.com)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 21:21:56 +0100


At 10:20 PM 01/01/1995, Alex.Hopmann@resnova.com wrote:
>Just a couple days ago CompuServe, Inc. made an announcement that for all
>pratical purposes kills GIF as a format usable by the WWW and in HTML-based
>email, etc.
>
>I can go on at much more length about the details of all this stuff, but my
>conclusion is that GIF is gone as a standard image format. All of my
>information comes from official documents posted by CompuServe on their own
>service.

Can you provide further details? We're certainly concerned about this.

Craig Bromberg
Assistant Managing Editor
Pathfinder