Re: Re: GD 1.5

Hello, IANAL, so... "Mako Shark" <phpman2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > <<If the OP was concerned about such issues then > he/she should not be using GIF at all!>> > > This is leading me to believe that I can't use GIFs > because of these issues. Is this true? I know now that > Unisys (Unisys?) made a fuss about some compression or > whatever, but someone told me it was still okay to use > old GDs (am I naive? maybe). Is it now considered > piracy to use GIFs at all? Try Google and see what you find out. > Does this mean I have to > switch over to JPGs, even those images that compress > better with GIFs? No, not really. You can use PNGs instead. > I just assumed we were still > permitted, what with Jasc and everybody still allowing > it in their products. Is JPEG (or PNG) the way to go? JPEG? Whatever happened to Forgent? I wish the browsers support JPEG2000--no worries about royalites and/or license fees. Besides, it's better than JPEG anyway (I mean, image quality and filesize, etc). Or, maybe, there's something better... > I hesitate using PNGs since they seem to be the > least-supported out of the 'big three'. Not really. Anyway, I think, this might be of interest: http://burnallgifs.org/ or maybe this one: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/157217.shtml?tid=155 - E