>> And, BTW, PNG allows 16-bit per colour, a 48-bit depth per pixel. >> Thanks to libpng, my "npng" can render these as 24-bit images. > > ``the human ear can't hear as high as that / still, it ought to please any > passing bat''
Just because there's no value in the higher resolution does not mean that some fool isn't going to send you a picture you can't render. And, honestly, it's very little effort to implement in the renderer. I have no idea how much effort the developers of libpng had to expend to get it right. ++L
