Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support

Tuesday, 21 July 1998

        Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 Put bluntly, I don't think GIF support is worth risking our
 collective asses over. 
Nor do I, especially when we have a superior replacement (PNG).  The
lack of animation in PNG is not an issue because we have never
supported animated GIFs.

On a similar vein, since it isn't GIF format that's the problem -- it's
the patented LZW compression algorithm, the .Z photo files probably
ought to be converted to .gz (or better to PNG) as well.

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