IE support on PNG is far more mature on the Mac platform than it is on
Windows/Solaris. Don't know when MS is planning to finish their
implementation for these platforms but Alpha channels don't even work
right yet so I think MNG support is at least another major release away.
:(
As far as GIFs go in my experience:
1. Animations don't need to be manipulated on the fly, so fpassthru()
works just dandy
2. The designers/advertisers that supply GIFS are unlikely to be happy
about a page that alters their work. fpassthru() again.
3. we should not make assumptions about the needs/desires of the
ultimate user and should leave as many capabilities in PHP as makes
sense.
Having said that, I think we should leave GIF read capability by
default. Write should not be enabled (at least until 2003).
-- 100 monkeys given typewriters and 45 minutes could produce the entire
source code for Windows.
-- The same monkeys, given 5 minutes more would produce "Earth
in the Balance"
-----Original Message-----
From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:17 AM
To: fabwash
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!
f>> It only reads the first frame, so it's not really supported, but the
f>> point was that there are a lot of GIF images around there
f>> (unfortunately), either static or animated. I also hope it dies like
f>> BMP, or even the stupid AOL ART format!
Well, I think animated GIFs will be a relic very soon, I guess, as soon
as Flash support gains more coverage (most of browser do support it),
and there's also MNG format which supports animation, though I don't
really know its support status. MNG pages says mozilla and konq support
it. No info about MSIE.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
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