[Psi-devel] Re: BUG: avatar size not checked

[Robert Martinez]

Alex L. Mauer wrote:

> Robert Martinez wrote:
>
>> As image conversion is always a quality loss and in our case quiet often
>> a growth in size I would actually suggest to not convert anything at
>> all.
>
>
> Well, not always..e.g. gif->png is not a quality loss.  Neither is any
> other lossless->lossless conversion. 

I think there are not many other common lossless formats in use for
avatars on the web. So gif->png would be the only case.
Besides you loose any animation if present.
And if we have to resize for any reason there is a loss anyway.