Tzafrir Cohen
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:29:32 -0700
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: > > > 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. There is one issue, though: All relevant browsers support transparent GIFs well. Not all of those that support png also support "transparent PNGs" (alpha-tranparency or something). (There is the issue of animated gifs. MNGs are far less supported. But we don't need animated icons for our site). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]