Miscellaneous Hacks - NoMoreGifs

I had been working on a style for my now defunt site, while developing it, since IE7 was final and PNG's are just too cool to pass up anymore. I found it a pain to re-write all of the vBulletin templates to use the .png extension on the images. Not to mention this would make upgrading a pain in the butt.

I had Matthew make me this snipet of code. I told him I would release it and he said its fine.

So to you I now give you the ability to not have to use gif's but png's in your image folders.

You're webserver must support custom error documents via htaccess.

Installation,
Edit htaccess file to give a full/proper url to your new 404.php document
Put both the htaccess file and the 404.php file in the base of you images folder.

I only offer support when I have time. This modification is otherwise unsupported, but working.


For style developers, if you wish to use this, please give credit where credit is due , a link back to this mod would be great.

[Zachery]

Danny, this in theory works anywhere, it has no real version depedancy. Infact it can work on non vbulletin sites just as well.

[tommythejoat]

In short the feature only requires Apache.

I think the not found option in the alternate form is easy to overlook when reading.

If you use the mod rewrite you save a file fetch and an execution. If you are loading the simley images, the editor, etc. that is a lot of reads. Offhand it looks like it would save about 100 or so file reads per page.

[NAZIA]

I can not understand, why you prefer PNG....

here in IE6 Png are creating problem, in transparency, you can see
screen shot..

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But Gif never shows this dual effect...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NAZIA

I can not understand, why you prefer PNG....

here in IE6 Png are creating problem, in transparency, you can see
screen shot..

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But Gif never shows this dual effect...

Because IE6 sucks, its a bad browser with limited support. PNG's have alpha transparency which is better than normal on off transparency. All modern browsers support PNG's.

[StGaensler]

Originally Posted by NAZIA

I can not understand, why you prefer PNG....

here in IE6 Png are creating problem, in transparency, you can see
screen shot..

I can't understand why you prefer a more than seven-year-old browser over a modern webbrowser IE 6 was released in october 2001...

[stanleys]

This mod works by redirecting all forum icon requests to their .png equivalent via mod_rewrite?

[daCocio]

It was working but I made a few icon changes, now it does not work. I redid everything when it first worked. I am just puzzled. Any thoughts? You can see the missing images mostly on the postbit & thread page.

My site: http://tinyurl.com/d4u49l

[dannykilla]

Hi,

I have recently tried to get this to work on my server and for some reason its not having it, so I tried the same process on my friends server and it worked, so what could be stopping it on my end.

When I delete the .gifs all I get is a blacnk space on FF!

Can anyone suggest anything?

thanks
Danny

[dannykilla]

Ok I have spoken to one of the Tech dudes from my hosts and he said this:

"This hack will not work in your configuration as any file that does not exist (which would cause a 404) will be handed to Wordpress and managed by wordpress' 404 handler."

Is there anyway around this?

Dan

[dannykilla]

My hosts re-wrote my Wordpress .htaccess file, and this now works awesome!

If anyone uses Wordpress and wants to know how to solve this, just send me a PM.