It occured to me, after posting the above, that the problem is probably 
due a defective decompression algorithm.



Al Rider wrote:

> You're right about the tint.  In fact the story is even more interesting 
> than that.  I just measured three colors, on one of maps, using Moz, 
> IE6, and the original.
> 
> [red, green, blue]
> 
> Tan:
> Orig: 239, 232, 223
> IE6:  239, 231, 223
> Moz:  239, 235, 222
> 
> Yellow [pure]:  They are all exact
> 
> Blue [not pure]:
> Orig:  175, 199, 208
> IE6:   165, 195, 206
> Moz:   173, 199, 214
> 
> This phenominon [pardon the spelling, no spell checker in Moz] may be 
> due to whether or not, and how, the rendering agents use the system's 
> Color Management settings.
> 
> Though it is not obvious to me why anyone would screw with the color 
> space in a browser.  It can only make the colors appear different than 
> the posted image.
> 
> Maybe some knowledgeble folks could weigh in on this subject.
> 
> Al.........
> 
> 
> Morten Nilsen wrote:
> 
>> Al Rider wrote:
>>
>>> try this site.  Simple, clean pngs.  I just treied it, works fine on 
>>> 20011210
>>>
>>> http://www.ridersite.org/JFK50/JFK50maps.htm
>>>
>>
>> Speaking of PNG ...
>> can anyone tell me why some png's show up with an overall tint error 
>> (on transparency as well) in mozilla when they are ok in IE and vice 
>> versa?
>>
>> and how is MNG support on a general basis these days? does any other 
>> browser (IE) support them? is there a site which employs MNG? where is 
>> waldo? :)
>>
> 


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