With the end of the Unisys patent, GIF support has been put back into libgd (version 2.0.28) and also GD.pm (version 2.15).
Does anyone still use GIFs?
Night of the Living GIFs
dws on 2004-07-23T15:37:18
Does anyone still use GIFs?
Yup. Supporting old browsers sucks.
Yes.
phillup on 2004-07-23T16:00:38
Unfortunately, it is extremely hard (and not very profitable) to convince a customer to stop using IE.
And IE is rather limited in regards to supporting lossless images...
So, yes... gif is still used. (But, I create the "originals" in png format.)