Re: [techwr-l] Unisys in the news again

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>]

The time for PNG won't come until more browsers support it. Microsoft has 
yet to build PNG support into its Mac browser (although perhaps it's in 
IE 5 for Mac, due sometime this fall), and Microsoft's support for it on 
Windows appears to be spotty and full of bugs.

Netscape, Opera, and (on the Mac) iCab seem to support it well, however.

See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngapbr.html for the details. I've heard 
it said that until the next-to-most-recent generation of browsers 
supports PNG, it won't really have established itself, which makes sense 
to me.

As far as the Unisys thing goes, their agreement seems to indicate pretty 
clearly that graphics created with a licensed utility (virtually all 
commercial graphics packages that create GIFs) are OK, and since the 
burden of proof would be on Unisys to show they weren't created with a 
licensed utility, I'm not too worried about the GIFs on my site or in my 
PDF files. Of course, I'll also let the companies for whom I'm producing 
do the final worrying.

Just a few thoughts, not necessarily worth the electrons they're printed 
on...

----->Mike

On 08/31/1999 9:36 AM, Arlen P Walker (Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com) wrote:

>Perhaps the time for PNG has come?
>


_______________________________________________________________________
Internet: stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com                           AOL: MStockman
                                       AOL Instant Messenger: MStockman