<<Maybe you know this>>
Ew. First spam I've seen on the Mersenne list in a long time. Probably ever.
And another, happily non-spam, E-mail:
<< there are still a LOT of folks using Netscape 3 and other such browsers
that
don't support PNG. >>
I sort of doubt it. The whole GIMPS project is oriented to techie types.
Types who like to stay current with the latest technology and would upgrade
their browsers frequently. Also add in the fact that Internet Explorer, last
I heard, is gaining popularity and that IE4 and IE5 support PNGs
(haphazardly, but enough for banner purposes), and that Microsoft practically
forces people at gunpoint to upgrade, and so I'm guessing almost all IE users
can see PNGs. In addition, newer versions of Netscape can see PNGs. That
leaves, like, the Netscape 3 users. I really doubt that there are that many
Netscape 3 users out there. (Doesn't it have the most primitive level of
Javascript support and whatnot as well? Hopefully that would have annoyed
users into upgrading by now. It sure did for me and IE3.) Maybe someone
who's a webmaster could check their server logs and see how many non-PNG
compliant people are viewing their pages; it'd be rather representative if
Mr. Kurowski could do that. I think it'll be a small minority, maybe an
order of magnitude higher than the number of people who still use Lynx.
I suppose... if it turns out that most people who visit GIMPS sites still
haven't seen the light of day and switched to a PNG-supporting browser, I
could go back and provide GIF versions of the banners again. Though I don't
particularly like the idea; PNG is just way too cool.
Stephan "PNG! PNG! PNG!" Lavavej
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