Re: .GIF on www.debian.org/logos
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:37:44PM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:09:20AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:55:45PM -0500, Laurent Pelecq wrote:
> > > It is very surprising to find GIF format for the debian logos.
> > >
> > > Due to the patent pending on GIF files, I thought that debian was a
> > > .gif free site.
> >
> > So far we used transparent GIFs because some popular browsers can't grok
> > transparent PNGs. Same for animated versions, I guess.
>
> We may be able to get away with not using GIFs even with transparency
> problems. I sent an evil patch to wml so the "transparent colour" is
> white not black (based on the assumption that most pages have a white
> background).
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... which has been incorporated into Woody.
Denis
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