Well, when you do service archiving material to the web, the storage cost isn't irrelevant Also, big files means more network traffic between our webservers and

Well, when you do service archiving material to the web, the storage cost isn't irrelevant Also, big files means more network traffic between our webservers and the storage servers. Plus this format have other interesting features, like tiled rendering or the progressive download. Sadly, we must handle huge TIFFs and generate jpeg miniatures and tilesets from it, if not serving it online would be very painful. Note: I work on a company dedicated to archiving of libraries, museums and archives...