Application graphics

[Richard Gaskin]

Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I was not advocating animated GIFs over the other method: animated GIFs are
> fairly awful!  What I was doing was being anti showing sequences of images
> as it seems rather resource hungry.

What is an animation but a sequence of images shown in succession?

A multi-frame GIF will usually offer better compression than the 
equivalent images in a series of PNGs, because most animated GIF 
generators offer options to store only the deltas of subsequent frames. 
  But this comes at the cost of antialiasing, so the tradeoff may be 
quite acceptable for many uses.

While swapping icon images may seem "HyperCardy", it works.

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  Richard Gaskin
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