Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] GIFs in Image Counter

[Nicholas C. <ni...@un...>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:50:35PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> I have added an alternate set of PNG digits to Image Counter (well just
> run 'mogrify -format png *.gif' in the digits directory actually :) - I am
> of the opinion that we should remove the GIFs altogether at some point and
> have added a comment in the README that this is likely to happen sometime
> in the future.  Does anyone have any opinions on this matter ?

PNGs are good. GIFs are evil. [you said "opinion"]
Are there any compatibility issues with some browsers still not liking PNGs?
I had heard that some things that were fine with opaque PNGs, but didn't
like transparent PNGs. [not that I've looked at these]
But I heard this probably 2 years ago, so it might not be relevant.
My copy of links supports GIFs, PNGs and Coral Draw! files equally, so I
don't mind :-)

> can distribute without upsetting anyone?  Maybe it would be nice to have a
> small library of them on the web site ;-}

Frugal low colour ones that are damn fast to download,
pretty ones that might take longer.

And CGI scripts that call GD and stick digits together to make counters
which only have 1 image, rather than an image per digit. Or does that wait
until everything else is done? *and* servers have more CPU? And perl6 is
bug free?

Nicholas Clark
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