Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:05:07 -0700 From: Linh Pham <question@closedsrc.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Image patents Message-ID: <20040426170507.GA89495@q.internal.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040426115648.GA10877@submonkey.net> References: <20040426115648.GA10877@submonkey.net>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004-04-26 12:56 +0100, Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> wrote: # This is really starting to annoy me now. # See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=3D20040424232421417. #=20 # I'd really like to convert everything in www/en/gifs/ to a .png and # commit the diff at http://people.freebsd.org/~ceri/gif_diff. #=20 # Cons are that we lose animated gifs (such as powerani.gif) and some # images with transparency have lost it - see # http://shrike.submonkey.net/~setantae/gifs/ for the old and new, but # this is just from a pass through "{jpeg,gif}topnm | pnmtopng" so could # possibly be solved. #=20 # Objections, comments, suggestions on how to do it better and offers to # do it kindly accepted. I definitely agree that the image patents are getting insane and would welcome a shift from GIF and JPEG to PNG, though there is still a chunk (albeit small, but who knows) of browsers that still do not support PNG images. For animated GIFs, the alternate would be MNG (animated PNGs): http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ Then again, MNG support in browsers pretty much limited to Mozilla/Gecko-based browsers, Konquerer (and Safari?), and IE/Netscape 4.x via plug-ins. For my website, I've already converted GIF/JPEG to PNG images and serve them based on a very simple browser detection done in PHP. It's not the best solution, but it works for my needs. I took a look at your diff file and snickered at the fact that the directory names are still "gifs/". Maybe it's a chance to re-name it to "img/" and drop the different image formats into their own sub-directory? Of course doing that would probably wreak havoc on CVS, which I don't think the maintainers like :\ Anyway, that's my US$0.01. --=20 Linh Pham question@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org Apprentice Manager Editor and Writer http://www.daemonnews.org C++ is to C, as lung cancer is to lung | There is always one more bug. --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAjUFDwhofDeWkDMIRAgL4AJ9rKHARmuhqkwqaxQS1EubHhI8D7QCcC6oO L3wRIos2PMtjZwVgLZKBXAs= =g9qf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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