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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:09:27 -0600 (CST)
From:      FreeBSD Fanatic <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cliff@raggedclown.net
Subject:   Re: It's that time of year. GIF files.
Message-ID:  <200012121809.eBCI9RF67290@KIWI-Computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <14902.14464.409030.170937@guru.mired.org> "from Mike Meyer at Dec 12, 2000 08:38:56 am"

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> > Tell your kid to "just say no to GIFs".  I'm sure there's a better
> > format out there, avi maybe?
> 
> PNG was *designed* to replace GIFs after the patent fiasco. They threw
> in a lot of other good stuff while they were at it, though.

And while you're looking at PNG (which doesn't support animations), try MNG
done by the same people.  Not very standardized (yet) but you can use their
free libraries to create your own animations.  I think it's www.mng.org.

--Rick C. Petty,  aka Snoopy                     rick@kiwi-computer.com


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