On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Ilmari Karonen<nos...@vyznev.net> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> In other cases the gif tends to be larger, loads slower, etc. They >>> can be converted to PNG losslessly, so you should probably do so. >>> What am I missing? >> >> That a lot of people don't know the above and upload GIFs anyway, and >> until we can fix all users of each of these images, it would be nice >> to not serve the full-size file all the time. (Anyone want to make >> the planned transcode-on-upload infrastructure work for images too? >> :) ) > > Also, Commons alone has almost a hundred thousand existing GIF files. > Converting them all to PNG would be a significant job, especially since > changing the format (and thus the suffix) means that they can't just be > reuploaded under the same title. >
Or we just get rid of extensions all together, as mentioned in another thread. Bryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
