Extensions for fine-grained image quality control

[James Weatherall]

Adam,

[snip]
> AFAIK the Tight encoding is a mechanism to encapsulate other
> encodings thus you end with something like a "protocol inside
> protocol" (The Tight encoding already has many sub-encodings like
> FTP-like transfer related encodings and the JPEG encoding as you wrote
> above). I really don't like such approach because it might end with
> crippled and badly designed protocol.
[snip]

FWIW, I think you're confusing the Tight encoding, which is just another image-encoding scheme, with the Tight pseudo-Security-Type, which is used to indicate that the two parties support custom protocol elements from the TightVNC project.

HTH,

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Wez @ RealVNC Ltd