[imp] GIF -> PNG replacement

[Marcus I. Ryan]

IE supports png files, but not png transparency.

Quoting Ryan Gallagher <ryan@studiesabroad.com>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
> 
> > Zitat von Miroslaw Jaworski <mjaw@ipartners.pl>:
> >
> > > What do you think about replacing GIF's with PNG's?
> >
> > There's no need to do this.
> >
> > > GIFs authors have patented it and it's somehow "commercial" now -
> i don't
> > > know the it's exact status, but i disliked GIF format since that
> "GIF
> > > patent" thing. Personally i replace gifs with pngs in my
> projects.
> >
> > GIFs are only problematic if you create them with lzh compression
> and don't
> > use a tool for this that didn't license the compression algorithm.
> >
> > The whole thing will even become less problematic when Unisys'
> patent on the
> > compression algorithm expires by the end of this year.
> >
> > Jan.
> 
> Also, I seem to recall reading somewhere that IE as of the latest
> version has
> BROKEN their support of PNG (I could be mistaken).  The workaround
> was posted by
> MS and involved adding about 100 lines of ActiveX code preceeding
> each use of
> PNG.  Yick!
> 
> But maybe it was a rumor, or maybe they resolved it.
> 
> --
> Ryan T. Gallagher
> 
> 
> --
> IMP mailing list
> Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/
> To unsubscribe, mail: imp-unsubscribe@lists.horde.org


-- 
Marcus I. Ryan, marcus@riboflavin.net
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
 flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come."
                 -- Matt Groening
-----------------------------------------------------------------------