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Re: TECH: PNG files

From:Don Blaheta <dpb@...>
Date:Friday, October 8, 1999, 21:37
Quoth Paul Bennett:
> Don writes: > > Caveat: while NS and IE support _much_ of the PNG format, they don't > > support _all_ of it; IE doesn't have any support in its Mac and Win3.1 > > versions, netscape lacks gamma correction, and transparency is limited > > in both (not present at all in NS, and binary in IE). That probably > > means it's good enough to be usable until the browsers catch up, but I > > thought I'd mention it. > > Waaah! Ok, ok, you got me. I fell for the propoganda without reading it > properly. My bad.
Well, no, you really might still want to use it; I was just pointing out that *technically* they don't fully support PNG. If you're doing fonts, then transparency probably isn't hugely important; and, there's a bootstrapping problem here (why should NS bother if nobody uses PNG...) So I'd say you're pretty safe to go ahead and use it, I'm just a geek who feels the incessant need to correct technical errors. :)
> > > As for software, I heartily recommend JASC Paint Shop Pro to all > > > Windoze users. > > Also, the GIMP is very nice if you're on a unixy system (and I think it > > runs on Win* as well?) > A Win* GIMP? Gimme!!!
Hm, maybe I lied. I could've sword I'd heard about such a thing, but can't find it now. :( Aha! Here's a link: http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/ I guess it's still under development, though, so you might want to steer clear.
> Was the "Besserwissers" directed at onyone in particular? I'll try > not to take it personally <G>
No, no, it just got randomly pulled up by my random .sig program. I found the word terribly amusing when someone first used it, possibly on this list. :) -- -=-Don Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them.