Bug#127849: GIF Images Still In Use
Josip Rodin said:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:33:40PM +0000, Andrew Burton wrote:
> > I've downloaded and converted all the GIF files in /Pics/ to PNG files. Who
> > should I send them to so they can be uploaded to the website? Anything else
> > I can do in relation to this?
>
> We've discussed this topic ages ago, it just wasn't recorded in the bug
> tracking system.
>
> See e.g.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2000/debian-www-200009/msg00121.html
>
> I haven't a shred of doubt that if we just switched to PNG, there would be
> enough people complaining to make reading this list a pain. :|
Me either. However, I can think of no good reason* not to generate all
images in both GIF and PNG format: or even better, GIF, JPG and PNG.
Content negotiation is already required to be enabled on Debian web
sites, so an inline image can be requested as:
<img src="http://www.debian.org/foo"; />
... and depending on what the requesting browser can support, they'll
get served up foo.png, foo.jpg or foo.gif. This is how the w3.org site
has been doing the "Valid HTML!" images for some time now. eg:
http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401
If you look in /Icons/ you'll see that all the image files are available
in at least two different formats.
Andrew.
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