[thelist] PNG was:(What language?)

[Steve Cook]

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?
> >
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