Jpeg 2000
 

Anyone using them yet? Corel Photo Paint seems to support them but are they useful outside the Corel environment? Or are they just an updated version of the wavelet '.wi' file leading to a dead end?

Is this what you're talking about?
http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.html

Photoshop has an update that supports the new JPG format.

The quality and compression improvement is really good on those.

but I am afraid current webbrowsers don't support this new format yet :(

Valid question.. does anyone know?

I don't think current browsers support this.

Here's the plug-in for the browser anyway:
http://www.algovisionluratech.com/pr...jsp?language=3

I used the Corel WI files with a codec from a French guy. A 100K file made 4 screens of image blowing away the jpegs. I had two gigs free disk space last night but after converting a 200 meg site to jpegs the disk was full.

Funny that technology didn't catch on when bandwidth was $2000/megabit. Now even Corel has dropped WI files since version 9. They should mention that Photo-Paint 11 works best when the disk space is quadrupled.

It's all politics.

The JPEG2000 technology has been around for a long time, but MS will continue to drag their feet when it comes to IE supporting it.

JPEG2000 makes pages load much faster. Thus, degrading the need for broadband connections. This then costs MSN money in the long run.

If someone wants broadband for general browsing and not file downloading, JPEG2000 suddenly makes 56k connections just fine again.

I have fiddled around with it lately and it does perform well. My latest version of compupic works well with it and i have been giving some thought to using the lossless mode for archiving content. But like any (relatively) new format its a gamble. I have been hearing that m$ is going to support it in their upcoming browsers but have no idea if this is really true. Thats what will determine if it ever becomes popular or not. Its been around a few years now and still nothing. Could be like png or other formats, another good idea that goes nowhere. But there seems to be a lot of support for it in the web standards community so will have to wait and see if m$ wants it to succeed or not.

I have this nice proggie, Lurawave JP2 v1.1.9.12 for Adobe Photoshop.

I can't believe how good the jpeg2000. When I converted my 800k jpg to jpeg2000 it was 102k. You can see any differences in 3-400% zoom mode.

Unfortunately no browser support for it. If I.E. 7.0 won't support it, no chance at all. Making people to install unknown plugins not helps this product to be alive.