Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-18 Thread Frank Gore
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Cozens ke...@ve3syb.ca wrote: If you are using some fancy features on a web page it may not be as easy to have the same level of compatability across multiple browsers on multiple operating systems without some conditional code but the amount of browser

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Frank Gore wrote: Right, it's not like these new-fangled standards like HTML5 can possibly have any positive effect on a user's experience. Let's all cripple our work in an effort to support old, unmaintained, insecure browsers. In fact, we should ENCOURAGE

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-18 Thread Steve Kinney
On 02/18/2012 04:16 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: On 12-02-16 06:20 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: Usage is down to something around 5% on most sites I have seen recent statistics for. Considering the security aspect, it's really not doing anyone a favor to support IE6 any more... But the moment I stop

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-18 Thread Burnie West
On 02/18/2012 04:01 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: Actually I use semantic markup via standards compliant xhmtl 1.0 and CSS 2.1. As an example, the pages in my silly little personal site look and work the same in Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Epiphany, Konqueror, Midori and IE8. I did not have to

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Smith
Wow, thank you all so much for the helpful, detailed responses. What a nice body of background for me to work from. I worked for a long time in Photoshop for print, but not web stuff. Thanks again. I love this gimp list... Have a great week and weekend. Dan

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: What does Adam7 mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam7_algorithm Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: Others may know uses for png that I am not aware of, but so far I have found no use for it in web design. PNG is quite useful for some effects. Say I wanted a div element to have a gradient background - I could create a

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Stefan Maerz
Very useful information. I'm in the habit of just pressing enter twice to export. :) I've always wondered what this stuff does, so this has been an interesting read. -Stefan Maerz ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Xiella Harksell
On 17 February 2012 09:55, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: PNG is a lossless format, so unless you are saving a lot of giant images and run short of time, there is no reason to dial back the compression from the default 9. On 02/16/2012 03:18 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: I am looking to

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Frank Gore
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Xiella Harksell xie...@gmail.com wrote: As a point of difference :) I find myself tending to save the majority of my images (in terms of developing the site - stripes, decorations, non-content stuff) as PNGs. You're not the only one, the vast majority of

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Kinney
On 02/16/2012 05:25 PM, Burnie West wrote: On 02/16/2012 01:54 PM, Frank Gore wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Xiella Harksellxie...@gmail.com wrote: As a point of difference :) I find myself tending to save the majority of my images (in terms of developing the site - stripes,

Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?

2012-02-16 Thread Burnie West
On 02/16/2012 03:20 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: On 02/16/2012 05:25 PM, Burnie West wrote: On 02/16/2012 01:54 PM, Frank Gore wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Xiella Harksellxie...@gmail.com wrote: As a point of difference :) I find myself tending to save the majority of my images (in