I’m about due to improve my community site, and was polling the regulars for some ideas. One idea was “avatars” for forums. Simple, I thought – after all, one project I’m working on for work is a large photojournalist site with lots of funky image manipulation. Then I remembered that avatars are usually in .gif format. Why can’t web browsers stick to open formats like .mng??? That’d make life easier (.gif is not handled by the open source image manipulation libraries I use – GD and the like).