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. > There is already a basic imlib2 extension at: http://mmcc.cx/php_imlib/, however, it seems to need some work (from a quick look at the API and the Todo file)... -Sterling