Popular Web File Types

• Images
  • in-line - GIF (particularly Transparent GIFs) or bitmap.
  • others - JPEG (jpg) or GIF.
• Sounds
  • .au - 8bit 8kHz (Sun ulaw)
  • .MPG - MPEG compression (requires special players)
  • .wav - rarely done and should be specially noted.
• Movies
  • MPG - translators and translation methods freely available, but no sound yet.
  • QuickTime - rarely done and should be specially noted. Clients other than the Mac need to have the QuickTime movie flattened.
  • There are some resources available to make Quicktime movies compatible across platforms.

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