[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[David Gerard]

2009/9/11 Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/full-tiff-support-is-comming/
>> Funded by WMDE. Nice one :-)

> I don't suppose there's any easy way to use an automatic jpg
> thumbnail....... but only if the browser appears not to have an
> appropriate plug-in for displaying tiffs inline.


Most wouldn't. But even for browsers with SVG support, MediaWiki
thumbnails to PNG (because the browser SVG rendering is, at present,
still very slow and rather buggy).


- d.