Aaron,
I don't know what the market percentages are today, but IE does render PNG,
and I don't believe that transparency is an issue for these images.
--- Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Knauf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:55
To: James Developers List
Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-james/src/xdocs/images
james_config_load_balance.png james_config_secondary.png
james_config_smart_host.png
The trouble with PNG in the past has been poor support from microsoft.
IE has a fair proportion of the browser market cornered and provided
poor support for PNG up until (I think) one of the point versions of
IE4. The trouble, if I remember correctly, was to do with the treatment
of transparency.
Other browsers - in particular open source browsers - have had good
support for PNG for longer than IE. This is probably due to the fact
that PNG is an open alternative to GIF.
As far as I know, all major and most minor browsers now have excellent
support for PNG. Most authoring tools and image manipulation tools have
support, too - although the out of the box windows tools don't.
All that is left is for graphics libs to catch up. When last I looked
(over a year ago) java had no support for PNG in its Java2D libs.
If we are talking about using PNG for the James web site, I'm all for
it. PNG can do stuff that GIF can't (such as transparency) and is free
- unlike GIF.
Cheers
ADK
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>>Bill Parducci contributed images to accompany SMTP delivery documentation
>>
>>
>
>These are PNG images contributed by one of our users. I haven't seen the
>accompanying words, yet, but I like the idea that people are helping to
>improve up the site. Do we want to allow PNG format, or do we want to
>require JPG? How common is PNG support?
>
> --- Noel
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
