Re: icons: GIF to PNG

Unfortunately we still have to support browsers not supporting PNG... and
as the patent does not apply to us there is no reason to care at this
time I think.

Adding .pac is probably not such a good idea... It is not very likely that
a browser will use a proxy to find the proxy configuration file, and
returning a "correct" PAC mime format for .pac files when browsing renders
those files unreadable...

The .ico and .bz2 types should be added.

REgards
Henrik

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, PsychoTekk .de wrote:

> hi all,
> what do you think about changing the images format from GIF to PNG?
> (the icons used to browse ftp directories)
> the algo used to compress GIFs is patented to compuserve, and
> although this actually only affects companies that offer products
> that use this algo, i think PNG as an open source project
> (http://www.libpng.org) fits to squid.
> the browser png support looks good, too:
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html
>
> i have uploaded a zip file that contains all the images
> in png format, they are compressed with max compression level
> and their background is transparent (just like the gif's).
> ratio gif:png is 1:1.455 (for the whole folder)
> i also added a formatted mime.conf for the png files,
> furthermore added
> .bz2 application/x-bzip2
> .ico$ image/x-icon
> .pac$ application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig
>
> http://www.psychotekk.de/extern/PNG.zip
> what do you think?
> regards,
> Clemens
>
Received on Sat Sep 21 2002 - 00:53:52 MDT