On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote:
> In other cases the gif tends to be larger, loads slower, etc.  They
> can be converted to PNG losslessly, so you should probably do so.
> What am I missing?

That a lot of people don't know the above and upload GIFs anyway, and
until we can fix all users of each of these images, it would be nice
to not serve the full-size file all the time.  (Anyone want to make
the planned transcode-on-upload infrastructure work for images too?
:) )

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