As of June 2006 the Internet Explorer browser no longer supported ART files when Microsoft released a security update.
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(With later versions of the Graphic Workshop Professional software, an ART plugin from Alchemy Mindworks is required for this support.) For the Windows 2000 platform, Microsoft released the AOL Image Support Update which added support for ART images.
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The Graphic Workshop Professional software from Alchemy Mindworks Corp. This technology was once branded as Turboweb and is now known as AOL TopSpeed. This image conversion process effectively reduced the download time for image files. This conversion was done in the AOL proxy servers and could be optionally disabled by the user. In addition, the AOL client's web browser also automatically served such images in the ART format to achieve faster downloads on the slower dialup connections that were prevalent in those days. The AOL service used the ART image format for most of the image presentation of the online service. The ART format has similarities to the progressive JPEG format, and certain attributes of the ART format can lead to image quality being sacrificed for the sake of image compression (for instance, the image's color palette can be limited). When an image is converted to the ART format, the image is analyzed and the software decides what compression technique would be best. Originally, the compression was developed by the Johnson-Grace Company, which was then acquired by AOL. The format was designed to facilitate the quick downloading of images, among other things. The ART format ( file extension ".art") holds a single still image that has been highly compressed.
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