Re: Imlib support...

Jani, Well, the neat thing about Imlib2 is it is extensible... I.e. it has a plugin style architecture, and since it's also being driven by Enlightenment and sorta therefore by Gnome, it really is shaping up very nicely. Doing home grown stuff is nice, but unless you have some really well thought out ideas I really doubt it'll measure up for years. Granted, things never are truly innovative without doing this approach, but when something is far beyond good enough, why redesign the whell. *grin* BTW, the major thing that GD doesn't do which is bugging me to death is anti-aliased (or under/oversampling) resizes... Therefore, when you scale an image at all it degrades the picture quality drastically... I've been doing a lot of automatic thumbnailing and GD suffices, but it really doesn't yield very nice looking images. DIRT uses the new Imlib, if you check out their homepages, you can see some phenomenal demos. This is definately the kind of things we need in PHP. -Eric On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jani Taskinen wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Eric von Bayer wrote: >I apologize if this has been asked before, I have no clue, but has anyone >considered creating imlib support in PHP? Imlib1 has few benefits over GD >lib, but the upcoming imlib2 has many. If no one's already doing it I may >attempt to do it, but I figure it's best to ask and not redouble work >possibly already being done. I had an interesting conversation with Marko Karppinen (markonen) about this issue on #php (at EFNET). Although I had terrible headache I can recall him saying something like ditching the GD altogether and making some 'PhotoShop'-like graphics extension of our own which doesn't rely on any external libs but libpng, libjpeg, etc. I might have misunderstood what he actually meant but he'll propably tell more about he's plans himself..I hope. =) --Jani -- ******************************************************************** * Check out my art, poetry, | ebayer@thetesseract.org * * music, and more at: | http://www.thetesseract.org/~ebayer/ * ********************************************************************