> Actually that would be a good riddance and I personally won't miss it There may be good reasons for webmasters to avoid GIFs. Some webmasters will use them anyway. Perhaps they are ignorant of these reasons, or perhaps they disagree with them. It really doesn't matter.
A well-designed web browser will display a subpar web page -- including nonconforming HTML and, yes, nonoptimal image formats -- despite such a page's design flaws. A poorly designed web browser will decide what webmasters should and should not do, and attempt to police them by choosing to hide parts of their pages. This more likely to drive users to a better web browser than it is to make recalcitrant webmasters change their pages. > nothing of value is being stored as GIF nowadays It isn't your (or my, or any other individual's) place to decide what is "of value" across the entire world wide web. Users are diverse and find value in an enormous range of things. (NOTE: substitute "TIFF" for "GIF" above for an equally valid reason this bug should be fixed) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673342 Title: [wishlist] Support displaying inline tiff images (to support mails fom Mac Mail) Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Won't Fix Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird When a user of Apple Mac Mail pastes images in a email body, they are attached as tiff images (can't figure out why they didn't use png), Thunderbird doesn't know how to display these and just shows a big broken square instead. The files are available as attachments for download only. Here is the header from souch an email. Content-Type: image/tiff; name="PastedGraphic-6.tiff" Content-Description: PastedGraphic-6.tiff Content-Disposition: inline; filename="PastedGraphic-6.tiff"; size=31891; creation-date="Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:49:06 GMT"; modification-date="Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:49:06 GMT" Content-ID: <09F1CCA4-1E55-4571-9556-E4233A789F20> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/673342/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
