At Last, PNG An ISO Standard Under Publication

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At Last, PNG An ISO Standard Under Publication

Posted by timothy on Monday April 28, 2003 @05:13AM from the vectors-n-stuff dept.

Jeex writes "After its first draft back in '95, the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is finally, as of 2003-04-25, an ISO standard under publication. Links: ISO technical programme: JTC 1/SC 24, PNG Homepage."

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So, does that mean... by FroMan · 2003-04-28 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny

MS will still not have proper PNG transparency in IE?

Just now its ISO official?

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Cheesy Website by BlakeGarretson · 2003-04-28 05:24 · Score: 4, Funny

The reason that it wasn't standardized before this is because nobody could take it serious with that cheesy website. ISO apparently thought PNG was made up by some teenager in his parents' basement.
And guess what? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-28 05:40 · Score: 3, Insightful

Yes, that's right, 8 years later, Internet Explorer still doesn't support PNG properly!
Re:Great! by seinman · 2003-04-28 06:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

But when will the hypocritical fucks on slashdot start using png graphics instead of gif?

Probably about the same time that the hypocritical fucks who complain about PNG not working in IE shut up and switch to a better browser instead of just complaining about the one they have.
Re:GIF and JPEG . . . by Webmonger · 2003-04-28 06:31 · Score: 3, Informative

GIF and PNG use lossless compression techniques. They are lossless. If you have a black-and-white image and you save it into GIF or PNG, you will get an identical image back when you load it.

You're confusing format with interface (because you refer to options used, and those are an interface thing). GIF is lossless, but it can only represent images with 256 colours or less. (Black-and-white images meet that test.) It's impossible to save an image with more than 256 colours as a GIF, so many programs will convert it for you. That doesn't mean GIF is lossy. Just means that it has limitations. Save any 256-colour image, load it up, and you'll get exactly what you had before.