Bug#127849: GIF Images Still In Use

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:12PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> > 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.

And this would stop complaints... how? :) It seems more likely that it would
be even more broken for some.

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