Re: GIF -> PNG in help files


Subject: Re: GIF -> PNG in help files
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 12:15:39 CDT


On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 bob@abisource.com wrote:

> My suggestion to reduce this size would be to change all GIF files in the help system to PNGs. Typically the PNGs will be much smaller, and this should save lots of download time for users.
>
> Does anyone have any objections if this starts happening in the tree?

This would also have added benifit, since GIFs are evil[1].

[1] http://burnallgifs.org
                                sam th
                                sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam



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