[imp] GIF -> PNG replacement

[Ryan Gallagher]

Quoting "Marcus I. Ryan" <marcus@riboflavin.net>:

> IE supports png files, but not png transparency.

Well considering the orig. suggestion involved replacing the icons (which rely
heavily on transparency for allowing the various color themes to change, prob.
not a good move.

Although I could be misunderstanding you and only "opacity levels" are broken in
IE, maybe their is an alternate approach to getting "see-through" other than the
broken transparency functionality.

--Ryan

> 
> 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.
> > 
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