Re: [Geoserver-users] On tiling, rich clients, and cache

[Luca M. <lmo...@ie...>]

Andrea Aime wrote:
> 
> Using 256 colors rendering would speed up a lot image encoding
> too, making us scale a lot better on the CPU side of the fence too.

I know this is rather naive, but... what prevents GeoServer to produce 
8bit PNGs (I used this format for ArcIMS, and appreciated its small 
footprint) ?

Regards,

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    Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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