Gervase Markham wrote:
>> Alright, then let's pull down the /banners directory completely.
>
> Good idea.
I agree. I think the banners directory is outdated and unneeded. To
expand on these two points:
Outdated: For the most part the images in the banners directory were
from a banner ad campaign that Jamie Zawinski spearheaded in the months
immediately following the original release of the Mozilla code. To my
knowledge the two "hack" images at the bottom of that page are the only
images that have been actively used in mozilla.org-initiated promotions
since then; IMO the "hack" image on the right (the one without the star)
is the only image that is appropriate for online use.
(Other considerations aside, almost all of the JWZ banner ads are IMO
butt-ugly, and the hack image on the left -- the one with the star --
has text at the bottom that is almost unreadable. I think -- but am not
100% sure -- that the "hack" image with the red star was used only for
stickers distributed by mozilla.org, and not used in any "official"
online promotion.)
Unneeded: As I mentioned in a previous post, I'd like mozilla.org to
discourage people from creating or using "best viewed with Mozilla"
logos. I also think that mozilla.org has much higher priorities than
helping people do online promotions for Mozilla; I think a solid Mozilla
1.0 will do much more to promote Mozilla than any number of online "ads".
Finally, to the extent that the Mozilla dinosaur and related images can
be considered trademarks, I think it's a good idea to exercise some
control over their use, and not just hand them out willy-nilly in the
form of image files for people to put on their sites and play around
with making new graphics.
So my proposal would be for mozilla.org to a) remove the banners
directory from the mozilla.org web site; b) stop distributing the image
files in it; and c) refuse to distribute Mozilla-related image files
created by others. If people want to promote Mozilla with logos and
banner ads then they can create their own graphics and distribute them
through other Mozilla-related sites.
Frank
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