Bug 55477

Summary:	Quit using GIFs!
Product:	Red Hat Web Site	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
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Description Chris Ricker 2001-10-31 23:00:00 UTC

At least Documentation, and probably many other parts of the RH web site
are using images in GIF format.  This is a bad idea for both legal (you
didn't *really* pay the stupid Unisys licensing fee, did you? ;-) and
technical reasons.

For example,
<http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-guimode-choose-lang.html>
loads the image
<http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/figs/guimode/lang.gif>

Please see <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html> if you have further
questions.

Comment 1 Tammy Fox 2001-11-01 01:14:45 UTC

The documentation department is aware of the reasons to not use GIFs. We plan to
start
using PNGs with the next release of our Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Network
documentation
now that there is better Web browser support for PNGs.