READ ALSO: Image Variants in Web Applications READ ALSO: Images in Web Applications READ ALSO: Brief History of Images in Software In the early history of the Web, GIF was the first widely used image format. Short for Graphics Interchange Format, it was introduced by CompuServe in 1987, well before JPEG became practical for theContinue reading “Browsing for Images”
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Brief History of Images in Software
READ ALSO: Image Variants in Web Applications READ ALSO: Images in Web Applications Today the acronym JPEG is so popular to be rightfully considered a synonym to the same term image. Yet there was a time—and not even that many years ago—in which computer science progressed without it. Let’s start with a brief history ofContinue reading “Brief History of Images in Software”
Dealing with Business Images with Variants
READ ALSO: Images in Web Applications Speaking of images in web applications, an additional point to consider—beyond choosing the most effective storage medium—is how to deal with multiple variants of the same image that may need to be stored and served. If, in general terms, storage can be one of a few options—database, file system,Continue reading “Dealing with Business Images with Variants”
Handling Business Images in Web Applications
READ ALSO: Image Variants in Web Applications Across the millennium, a technical article explaining step by step how to save an image to—and read it from—a database column as a plain array of bytes was pure gold. At the time, images were almost invariably treated as separate files deployed in some folder on the webContinue reading “Handling Business Images in Web Applications “
