[thelist] PNG was:(What language?)

[Jon Hall]

PNG has been around for a long time. It's a royalty free replacement for the
gif standard, with lossless compression and has a much smaller file size
than a gif. It supports full transparency and lots of other cool things. The
main reason it has not taken off has been browser support in the past. Now
that NS6 supports supports the PNG standard fully, hopefully the guys over
at Microsloth will catch up.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Beckler" <naplescom at yahoo.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] PNG was:(What language?)


> I love PNGs, and see what they can do in Fireworks, but file size is still
> an issue for the web. From what I can remember, the new image format that
is
> supposed to happen in the not too distant future is kind of like PNG, but
> compression like JPG, and every imaginable feature... even accessability
> ones.
>
> That would be nice. What is it called, I can't remember??
>
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Cook" <sck at biljettpoolen.se>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:50 PM
> Subject: RE: [thelist] PNG was:(What language?)
>
>
> > I guess that Quicktime could in theory affect a browser's support of
PNG's
> > as it can be used as an image viewer which supports PNG and a plug-in,
so
> it
> > could act as a PNG viewing plug-in. Whether it does that or not I'll
leave
> > up to others to answer ;-)
> >
> > As to why one would want to use PNG images, one reason is because of the
> > patent issues surrounding the compression format used in .gifs. I wrote
an
> > article about this some time back for evolt
> > http://evolt.org/article/Don_t_panic_about_GIFs/25/389/index.html
> >
> > On top of the patent issues (which haven't really affected anyone too
> > adversely!), PNG supports a bunch of other improvements upon the gif
> format.
> > You can find a wealth of information about PNG vs GIF at
> > http://burnallgifs.org/
> >
> > .steve
> >
> >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Beckler [mailto:naplescom at yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: den 26 januari 2001 03:38
> > > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > > Subject: Re: [thelist] PNG was:(What language?)
> > >
> > >
> > > Excuse my ignorance, but why would Quicktime affect PNG support?
> > > And why would someone want to use PNG images?
> > >
> > > PB
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brown, Robert" <Robert.Brown at lot21.com>
> > > To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:34 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [thelist] PNG was:(What language?)
> > >
> > >
> > > > Question: If Qucktime is installed, then do you have PNG
> > > support on any
> > > > browser?
> > > >
> > <SNIP>
> >
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