To be clear, there are generally no objections to "1) accept FLIF (and possibly serve PNG thumbs for browsers without js" other than convince commons it would be a good idea to accept the format. All the controversial bit is converting files to FLIF. Accepting FLIF files for upload is non-controversial if the communities want them.
-- Brian On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Chico Venancio <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur with the extension idea. > I'd add that have options for degrees of using FLIF would be a good idea as > well. I.E. the decision could be to simply 1) accept FLIF (and possibly > serve PNG thumbs for browsers without js), to 2) encourage FLIF use, or to > 3)"force" FLIF by converting everything to FLIF and serving only FLIF > versions to browsers. > > Even option 1 seems unlikely to gather support at this point, but it is a > lot more likely than option 3. > > Chico Venancio > > 2017-12-11 14:22 GMT-03:00 Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]>: > >> If you want to work on implementing support for FLIF, I would recommend >> doing it as an extension (similar to e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki >> /Extension:PdfHandler) rather than in MediaWiki core. >> >> -- >> Bartosz Dziewoński >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
