[Typo3-linux] some rather major Typo3 problems

[Michael Stucki]

> Same thing as well for him recommending that GIF always be used, even
> though it is a proprietary format which is not freely usable.  If a
> commercial web site were to be using GIF they could have Unisys after them
> if they felt like it.  Besides that, all modern web browsers (and many
> older ones as well) can view PNG images with no troubles.  I think it is
> Netscape 2 or 3+, MSIE 3 or 4+ and all versions of Opera have PNG support.

I also prefer PNG. If you use Debian, there won't be any GIF+LZW support by
default. This is the configuration I am using on our company website and
this has never been a problem to us.

However, there's a little update on the LZW story. The patent of Unisys is
going to run out at least for the US in this month. Just FYI.

> As I said previously, I have been trying for a week to get Typo3 working,
> and there just seems to be many fundemental flaws in how it is built on
> all these outdated libraries.  If it weren't for the active typo3.org web
> site it would appear the the project had just died long ago.

Well. You may know that I am currently working on Debian packages for TYPO3.
Yesterday I got a very nice feedback of a user who has been working for two
weeks with Linux itself, one week with Debian and just five more minutes to
install my packages and get TYPO3 up and running (using a site installer
that is shipped with these packages).

Cheers - michael