GIF support

[Mike Barnes]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:24:37 +1000, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> 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.