Re: TECH: PNG files

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. :)

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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.