Re: TECH: PNG files

Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett@...> wrote:

> The "big two" browsers (IE and NS) both support PNG in the most recent couple of
> incarnations, which covers you for the vast majority of platforms in use.  Users
> of (eg) Kaldera Webspider or Lynx may get left out, but being a confirmed
> Netscape addict, I tend to laugh and point at such people anyway, so what do I
> care :-)
I think you should * -- but that's not my business. In any case, if there are
a significant number of people who can't see my stuff, I won't change the
format, since it's there for people to see! ;)

>
> On a related note, unless your images are very small, or are absolutely
> dependent on individual pixel values, I'd advocate JPG over PNG any day of the
> week.
I use JPEG for photos or *really* big images. Not that I need to keep every
pixel the same, but JPEG doesn't treat plain backgrounds and sharp lines very
well. I just prefer PNG because it lets you have 24 bit colour (which I'd
use only on small images, of course!).


* Conspiracy theory: not-so-faraway future, Netscape is absorbed by Micro$oft,
and Mr. Gates decides their browsers will scan each page and refuse to display
it if it contains the word "windows", unless you pay $1 per view. Moreover,
pages have already been converted to HTML 9.0 or whatever at the time, which
other browsers are unable to display at all.


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/