On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:32:07AM -0800, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > 1) Why are most Pics in the pages gif's? This is probably been > > > discussed before, but it must have been before I joined the > > > list. In general I stay away from gif's, and I even had to install > > > the gimp-nonfree package to work on the pages! > > > > I think this is because we don't have a gimp script to create PNGs instead > > of GIFs. > > It is quite easy to modify the gimp script to creat png instead of gif.
Yeah, and then it doesn't work. :) I've tried, and all I've gotten were some ugly internal errors in Gimp's Perl module. Maybe you had better luck? > One thing we have been concerned with is alienating new users if they > visit a web site that has 'broken' images if their browser doesn't support > png. What's the status on browser support for PNG, anyway? BTW nobody has yet complained about the `corner' images in the navbar, and those are PNGs... which doesn't really mean anything since those images are rather small, maybe nobody noticed that they weren't getting displayed. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
