Ned Konz <ned at squeakland.org> wrote:
[SNIP]
> Now that PNG writing is working quite well, I think that we should remove the 
> generation of compressed GIFs from the distribution version of Squeak 
> (perhaps moving the offending parts to SqueakMap or somewhere else if someone 
> needs to have them).
> 
> PNG is a better format than GIF in many ways (for instance, supporting gamma, 
> truecolor images, and better compression)
> 
> All modern browsers support PNG images (and have for some years; see 
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html ); if you're writing a web server 
> that must generate GIF images you can either generate uncompressed ones, or 
> go get the replacement code from SqueakMap or wherever it lives.
> 
> We could still generate uncompressed GIF images (this is what GNU/Linux has 
> done with libungif), or use run-length encoding.
> 
> I believe that the only impact to code in the image would be the substitution 
> of the non-compressing write logic. However, the Project saving currently 
> saves GIF images (as thumbnails) and for some other forms (in the 
> ResourceCollector); these would probably be better saved as PNG images so we 
> don't lose image information (via JPEG compression or GIF pallette 
> reduction), but we would have to phase this change in for backwards 
> compatibility.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

I tend to agree. And just put the GIF stuff on SM.

regards, Göran