Re: PNG

>On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Webguy wrote:
>> Macromedia's proprietary .png format
>
>This <http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/#history> PNG?

Thank you.

As can be seen png is a public open format. It was designed specifically to
avoid problems like the issue with gif being owned by Unisys.

Macromedia has no hold on it. What they have is they have chosen to make it
the native format for all of their rastor-image graphics. This means it is the
native format used by fireworks and is the preferred format for raster-image
imports into flash (though you can import gif and jpeg as well, png imports
into flash yield superior results in my experience, since you can keep all of
png's transparency features).

But png is by no means owned by anyone.

No matter how commercial the web may ever get; you'll never get sued for using
a png; like you could in theory for using a gif.

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