2009/8/2 Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]>: > It seems to me that delivering *static* thumbnails of GIF images, either > in GIF or PNG format, would be a considerable improvement over the > current situation. And indeed, the code to do that seems to be already > in place: just set $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea = 0; > So, my questions would be: > 1. Is there a reason we don't do this already?
Careful to only do it if in fact definitely scaling. Animated GIFs are in use on lots of page on en:wp, for instance, when there's reason to put a small animation right there on the page rather than a click away. > 3. Alternatively, if the problem is ImageMagick taking too much time to > read animated GIFs even just to extract only the first frame, would some > other scaling program be better? Indeed, it should even be possible to > write a bit of PHP code to pull out just the first frame of a GIF file > and hand it off to ImageMagick for scaling. ImageMagick is a Swiss army knife - it does everything and isn't the best at anything. I would be unsurprised if there was a tool to do this specific job much better. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
