On 8/2/09 7:26 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 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?

IIRC, we don't yet have working detection for animated GIFs:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16451

Looks like Andrew put together an updated patch a couple months ago but 
didn't have a chance to test and confirm it was working properly. Anyone 
care to take a peek?

-- brion

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