Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] The GIF issue

[Bob Schader]

Dan,

I will see if I can convert a gif file or two to the ungif format
to compare sizes. Another possible solution I thought of
would be to program PHP to generate all the images on the
fly from some type of template, that could make changes based
on the current themeset in use.
Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] The GIF issue


Bob Schader wrote:
> 
> Decoding GIFs is a different issue. The Unisys and IBM patents are
> both written in such a way that they do not apply to a program which
> can only uncompress LZW format and cannot compress. Therefore we
> can and will include support for displaying GIF files in GNU software.

Yes, the issue is in inlcuding gifs at all

> So I guess I don't see what the problem is, except for the very act of
> providing the gifs in the first place. If this is the main issue, then we 
> could
> get around that by using GNU's own "libungif" to create gif files that
> are not compressed using LZW, if this would not cause a big bandwidth
> problem. People could then have the option to re-optimize the
> uncompressed or pseudo gifs to their own prefernce. I personally do not see
> where this would violate any GNU standards, because of the above statement
> and GNU's own support of libungif.

Interesting idea. Do you have time to find out what size diff we are
talking about?

Seek3r

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