[thelist] I hate Fireworks

[Simon Baier]

... it was the phrase "semi-proprietary format" used to describe the PNG
that prompts my first time posting to evolt.

png is not proprietary.  It was standardized by the W3C with several clear
objectives:
- open license (unlike GIF which CompuServe owns and occasionally threatens
to start charging for usage of)
- lossless (unlike GIF and JPEG)
- well compressed (usually more so than GIF and often JPEG)
- support for Indexed color (unlike JPEG)
- support for truecolor (unlike GIF)
- support or transparency (unlike JPEG)

>From the w3c site (http://www.w3c.org/Graphics/PNG/)
PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed
storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and
can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and
truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel for
transparency. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits.  The PNG specification
was issued as a W3C Recommendation on 1st October, 1996.

Minuses:
- many browsers still do not support, or effectively support PNG.
- JPG can generally compress photographic images smaller than PNG.

With that said, I am still an Adobe bigot who hates Fireworks and rarely
uses PNG. :)



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