[thelist] Use of PNG Graphics

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at speakeasy.net
Sun Jul 17 02:21:36 CDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 15:38 +1200, David Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Where is the lay of the land these days with using png graphics? Obviously
> there are older browsers that have difficulty with them, but are there any
> workarounds? The reason I ask is that I've seen quite a few sites recently
> that use them and wondered how they get around the browser issues. Is there
> anywhere I can go to find out about this?

The browsers that don't support PNG are obsolete, terminally broken with
regard to current Web standards, and/or don't support images at all (in
the case of Lynx and friends). It's been like this as of about, oh, at
least 2 years ago.

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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>



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