Re:

by "Arcady"<arcady(at)jps.net>

 Date:  Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:31:33 GMT
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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>The PNG format is supported by MSIE 5 and above natively. Netscape 6, and
>recent versions of Netscape 4.5 and above also seem to support PNG natively,

>unless they snuck a plugin download by me at one point. Opera 3 and 4 also

>natively support PNGs. I no longer have MSIE 4.x on my system, as we all
>know that each version of MSIE completely replaces the previous, and
>multiple instances of different versions is pretty difficult without running

>multiple OSs, but I believe that PNG was supported in newer 4.x versions,
>too. To test a browser, go to the second PNG link above. The logo on the
>opening page is a PNG graphic. If you can see it, your browser supports
>PNGs.

You say supports png's. But how about png transparency? Last time I checked
all the browsers were still having issues with this. Have they dealt with it?


That the main reason I still avoid png's in anything but flash work that needs
a raster-image.

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