On 8/2/09 7:26 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
It seems to me that delivering *static* thumbnails of GIF images, either in GIF or PNG format, would be a considerable improvement over the current situation. And indeed, the code to do that seems to be already in place: just set $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea = 0;
So, my questions would be:
- Is there a reason we don't do this already?
IIRC, we don't yet have working detection for animated GIFs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16451
Looks like Andrew put together an updated patch a couple months ago but didn't have a chance to test and confirm it was working properly. Anyone care to take a peek?
-- brion