Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27388204-20161211085024

Hey all,

I'm just wondering if we are perhaps becoming a little too carried away with unnecessary gifs. For instance, take a look at the pouch page. So, I've decided to put up a couple of polls regarding the usage of gifs on this wiki.

First up, is what parameters determine whether we should use a gif as an infobox image or not. My personal view on the matter is this: if the block/item variations are all present in the creative inventory (e.g. crackers, wool, dyes), then use a gif. If not (leather armour, and probably a few other items) then don't use a gif. In the case of pouches, the dyed variants aren't present in the creative inventory, but the three sizes are, which means that a gif showing the three sizes is all that is needed. That's my opinion, which I feel is quite rational. Anyway, here's the poll. Only use a gif for variations present in the creative inventory (e.g. crackers, pouch size, wool etc.) Use a gif for all variation on a particular item, whether visible or not. No gifs, only show the standard version. Something else (please specify)

Now onto the ordering of gifs. For consistency's sake, I think that gifs of similar things (i.e. equipment sets) should follow the same order, such as alphabetical, or how they are oriented in the creative inventory. Order gif images alphabetically. Order gif images in the order they are present in the creative inventory. Who cares. Something else (please specify)

That's all for today, and as a side note, please make sure that the gifs are all timed to 1 second per image. Otherwise, crafting grids and other templates that combine several gifs can get messy.

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