[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[Daniel Kinzler]

peter green schrieb:
> On a related note is there any chance of getting the ability to specify 
> thumbnail formats when adding an image to a page and/or determining what 
> format to use huristically? We already support png which is a lossless 
> format with wide support and better compression than TIFF but if you 
> upload a photo as a png at the moment the thumbnails will also be pngs 
> which is generally bad.

We have acutally discussed this for TIFFs, it's an optional feature in the spec.
I can't promise that we'll get it, but it would make sense, and shouldn't be
hard to add even if it's not included in the first iteration.

-- daniel