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Robert N. Phillips
CEO, Lasotell Pty Ltd.
www.lasotell.com.au
In the October
CIDM e-newsletter, I reported on the benefits of using the PNG format for
graphics in most situations. Since then, however, I have
found that Internet Explorer 5.5 does not always properly
display graphics in PNG format. So we have had to revert to
GIF or JPEG format for graphics on our Web pages.
If you would like to test your browser's ability to handle graphics in
PNG format, visit
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/png-test/alpha/cmap.html
An article in the Australian PC User magazine, Collector's
Edition for 2002, points out that the PNG format is still
ahead of its time. PNG has many advantages over GIF and JPEG
(more colour information than current monitors can handle,
lossless compression, and variable resolution). Why it has
not become the universal standard is still a mystery.
Despite the obvious slowness of the masses in recognising a
good thing, we continue to use PNG as our standard for all
graphic work, with the exception of the Internet, and bless
the reduced file sizes and stability it brings to MSWord.
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