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GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:53 am
by Armchair_Avatar
There are two GIFs on the Exult website:

http://exult.info/images/exult_logo.gif
http://exult.info/images/back.gif

Why aren't you using the patent-free PNG format instead?
Is it because the images become slightly bigger when converted to PNG format?

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:55 am
by wjp
Hm, looks like Fingolfin missed those two when converting everything to .png :-)

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:02 am
by Armchair_Avatar

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:02 am
by Colourless
There are specific reasons why the logo wont be converted PNG (blame Internet Explorer). Back though, probably just forgotton. Fingolfin just changed all the screenshots AFAIK.

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:54 am
by suraimu
I thought the patent on LZW expired.

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:22 am
by Armchair_Avatar
From http://burnallgifs.org/:
The Unisys LZW patent expires in the USA on June 20, 2003.

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:36 pm
by suraimu
Ah, I was close. :)

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:56 pm
by sslaxx
Is this anything to do with the image on the Exult frontpage not loading now?

Re: GIFs on the Exult website

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:07 pm
by wjp
What do you mean? That image loads just fine! ;-)


(thanks :-) )