[Laszlo-dev] autoPng and SWFs -- time to remove the SWFs?

[P T Withington]

Not sure what you mean by 'a script to clean things up'?

On 2008-05-28, at 15:58 EDT, David Temkin wrote:

> The PNGs that have been autogenerated are good, both in terms of  
> appearance and in terms of file size. I don't think we need to add a  
> manual task here; a script to clean things up would be great.
>
> Next step for a designer would be to create a new skin for the  
> components as a whole. But that's a non-trivial task.
>
> - D.
>
>
> On May 27, 2008, at 10:48 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> This seems like a fine idea to me, but shouldn't we actually get  
>> some designer resources to create optimal .png's, rather than rely  
>> on the auto-generated ones?
>>
>> And then we just need to prioritize this w.r.t. everything else  
>> that is going on...
>>
>> On 2008-05-23, at 15:33 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>
>>> Is it time to remove the SWF resources altogether from the  
>>> components and the non-SWF specific sample apps, and move the  
>>> contents of the autoPng directories up a level?
>>>
>>> The SWFs add confusion both to the source code ("I see SWF  
>>> resources -- how could that work in DHTML?") and in the way the  
>>> directories are laid out. And the autoPng mechanism is magic.
>>>
>>> I don't think there's a benefit in keeping the SWFs around. While  
>>> SWFs in some cases may be smaller and/or may stretch better, the  
>>> confusion and difference between runtimes outweigh the benefits.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> - D.
>>>
>>
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