Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread Craig Small
James A. Treacy said: > Does anyone have any experience with a popular site that has switched to > png? > > Who is willing to take on the conversion? Also, are any of you willing to > be joined to webmaster to answer the mail we'll get as a result of switching? I changed my own personal site http

Bug#52129: Broken copyright and changelogs

1999-12-07 Thread Larrick, Douglas
Package: www.debian.org The copyright file and Debian changelog links at the bottom of the page in many (all?) package description pages are broken. See for example ; click on Debian chagelog at the bottom (which is

Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Why no switch to GIFs that don't use the patented compression? This was done in the mh-book package in the last upload (it had a _lot_ of GIFs). BTW, I asked another upstream author to consider switching. He emailed back saying that he noticed Debian still used GIFs in our webd page and we knew

Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > BTW, I asked another upstream author to consider switching. He > emailed back saying that he noticed Debian still used GIFs in our > webd page and we knew best. So he wasn't changing. I understand > the reason, but perhaps switching to non-compresse

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1999-12-07 Thread James A. Treacy
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Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > Why no switch to GIFs that don't use the patented compression? Or why not create them in a country where Unisys' patent isn't valid? Over here (in the civilised world :) ), software patents are not allowed by law, so I have no problems with GIF whatsoever. -- \\// peter - h

Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > BTW, I asked another upstream author to consider switching. He > > emailed back saying that he noticed Debian still used GIFs in our > > webd page and we knew best. So he wasn't changing. I understand > > the reason, but p