Shlomi Fish
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:09:21 -0700
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: > > a few notes: > > > <snipped> > > 3. regarding the logo (tux-at-home.gif) - i wish to write 'Haifux' along > > side tux's shoulder (to the left of tux, from buttom-left to > > top-right). i created an image with this text, only that i had to > > "write" the word pixel by pixel, and i did a bad job > > (http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/tux-at-haifux.gif). > > > > GIFs!?? As far as I know, GIF is proprietary format whose use requires > license from UNI$Y$. As a group promoting open-source and free software (I > think we are that, aren't we:-), we should not use it. PNG is a free > replacement of GIF. Does anybody know if all the popular (both broken and > less broken ;-) browsers support it? > AFAIK, in Israel we don't need to have a license to use GIFs. But I'm not sure about it, and besides there is the issue of world-wide Open Source solidarity. Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x (not to mention Konq, NS 6.1, IE 5.0, Opera, whatever) all support PNG. And PNG is by far superior to GIF, not counting the fact that it doesn't support animations. (and we all know animated GIFs are Evil with a capital E). In case you do _need_ animations there are mngs. GIMP and similar tools can generate PNGs very well. (GIMP has some problem with a palette based index and alpha, though). And there's a tool called gif2png (By ESR) that enables converting a gif (or an entire site) to a png. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Emil > <snipped> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes what went wrong more quickly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
