On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:24:37 +1000, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But for PHP I can't see the point. What would adding GIF creation support > give to a PHP user? When you use PHP you want to create a web page, does it > matter to you whether the web page is comprised of .gif or .png files? Just to give a quick example - I have a little content management system I wrote for one of my sites a while back. One of the things it _used_ to do was accept image uploads and just do a little cropping and resizing of images. Once GIF support went out the window, I dropped that functionality - could still do it with JPEG and PNG images, but I didn't want to have to tell users that they could only use that bit of the management tools with two out of the three main image types they'd likely be uploading. To be honest, I think re-enabling GIF support in applications where it's easily done is a no-brainer.
