Re: [newbie] Netscape and .png

[Paul]

On Thu, 25 May 2000, StormeRider wrote:

>PNG, for those who don't know, was a very tight file format for graphic 
>data that
>a lot of people use due to the even-worse-than-Microsoft tactics of the company
>called Unisys, who maintain a strangehold on the GIF patent with LZW 
>compression
>(and GIF without the compression is rather _useless_ for web work).

Okay, I did not know this.

>A lot of Open Source people are supporting PNG as an alternative to GIF. 
>Paul, I
>find this very disheartening to hear you say "blame the maker of the webpage"
>when many people generate images on the fly using programs such as GD by
>Boutell, either via Perl or PHP, two of the largest and most widely used 

I have not heard anywhere that PNG is a standard anywhere. If it is, and
Netscape does not support it, then NS is wrong. If PNG is not yet an
accepted standard on webpages, then I am sorry for stating this again, but
then the person who put the image there is not comforming to the
standards, and this then can happen.

>what's going on here, find out. Support the underdog-- or why have you been 
>using
>Linux (though I recognize the fact that Linux is by far rapidly catching 

My use of Linux has nothing to do with the ability or disability to view
certain kinds of graphics on webpages. *grin*
Just got sick and tired of MS-stuff and the strange screens of errors they
incorporate in their systems.

>up, it is still
>behind in several areas, though we all know that this is being remedied 
>faster than
>the other companies are coming out with new technology).
>
>Support the community, don't blame those who want to use something that is
>_almost_ universally supported at this point.

"Almost" is the key word here. Obviously not yet by Netscape...

I wonder if the windows version of netscape does PNG..

Paul

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