Re: [nbdiscuss] New site design is live

Hello all,

cc'ing webteam@ and Tim who helped with this.

Tor Norbye wrote:
> Does the module_icon really have to be a JPG image? 
> JPG is a very good file format for photos, it's a
> very bad file format for icons. png is a much better
> one for icons - gifs are fine too.

After fiddling around a bit, it seems that jpg is actually
the best format in this case (unless we're doing something
wrong which is quite possible :-)

   http://www.netbeans.org/download/temp/core.html

- The first gif is the most optimised, but if you look at the
   top right corner you'll see a deformation of the cube, bad
   enough to be unacceptable I think;

- so far have been unable to get a png with correct palette,
   bgcolour is wrong as you can see in both examples here;

- 8bit gif is fine;

- 24bit jpg is also fine, and 40% smaller than the gif;

I'm no expert but I assume that since the icon is quite
detailed, includes a lot of variation/gradation in shading etc,
that jpg simply works best here.

Unless anyone strongly disagrees - and can come up with
a better option (acceptable quality and filesize) - I'm
going to suggest we keep the jpg.  I'll give ppl a few
days to object and come up with alternatives.

Translated files guys : due to the way the module navigation
and icon wrappering is set up, the module icon image must be
named the same everywhere.  Obviously this means that the
file *type* must be the same everywhere.  If we use
"module_icon.jpg" for one module, it must be a jpg everywhere.

SO - unless we come up with a better alternative, the
translatedfiles jpg that you already have (I think?) is
the one you should use - or rather it has to stay a jpg.

Comments/feedback welcome.  Thanks.

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Jack Catchpoole
NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
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