Re: Info re: png please

At 08:36 PM 11/23/01 , Linda wrote:
>I've been learning some PS5.5 and created a .pngimage with 
>transparent background.  But IE 5.x doesn't have a plug in to view 
>it, and I can not find much info on the web.

That is because support on the web for png is even worse than for CSS . . .
which is pretty darned bad.

It seems to be that "good idea"/"bad idea" thing. The better a given idea
is, the slower it is to be implemented and supported by web browsers. Come
up with something stupid, and they'll make a special release to accommodate it.

Given the speed at which CSS is coming down the pipe, we may ~never~ see .png.

Of course . . . that's just my not so humble opinion :-).

In the from of constructive suggestions . . . 

think .jpg with a background to match your page . . . or 89A.gif if you can
live with the 255 (one is transparent, remember) colors.

Oh, and you can check this out too . . seems to be some interesting info there:

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

HTH,
Fuzzy.

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