png to gif transformation - an excellent free solution via PHP GD2
Why we still need png to gif in our web pages There a couple of valid plugins for different libraries able to manage " silently " png transparency in order to fix those browsers (cough: IE6) that are still used, for god knows which reason, but not able to understand properly the alpha channel. The problem is that these plugins cause overhead in our pages and for each png images, which is nearly a non-sense since these plugins fix old browsers whose performances have never been brilliant! Especially for modern GUIs, where little icons are widely used, these plugins could make the application incredibly slow. If we could choose old good GIF instead of png, 'till the end of those browsers, the problem will not exist and performances will be acceptable. PNG 2 GIF, simple? ... not, really! First of all a couple of search via Google brought me in " free but you have to pay anyway " applications through some open source, simple, but not that nice, program language solu...