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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:27:03PM -0700, elek wrote:
> > As much as I'd like to "burn all GIFs" - I'm going crazy here.
> >
> > As a web designer - I've got a gazillion GIFs on sites all over the place.
> > I used GIFs since not all browsers can read jpg's or png's.
> >
> > So now - I have all these GIFs on web sites and no time to get them all
> > switched.
> >
> > I wonder if this is why they held out so long before saying "okay now we
> > want our money"...
> >
> > I knew they pretty much "owned" the format but I thought the vendor of the
> > image software needed the license (I'm not exactly brilliant when it comes
> > to copyright/trademark/patent laws and I'm still not quite sure I
> > understand which vendor licenses are and are not acceptable).
> >
> > -elek
>
> Why not just write a script to do it? Use the gif2png program
> provided by the PNG web page, and then grep through all .html files
> and replace any .gif with .png. It's probably a fairly straight
> forward perl script, though I don't know it off the top of my head.
Didn't even think of that...
It's a start, at least...although it will still take me hours to track
down all my sites - update the files - and re-upload to each site (and
hope that the sites I've done for people who never gave me access will be
updated as well ;)
Thanks :)
-elek
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