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PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

Posted by michael on from the just-in-time-for-lzw-patent-to-expire dept.

Quadraphonic writes "I'm surprised I haven't seen this yet: PNG Second Edition is a W3C Proposed Recommendation. Thoughts?"

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  1. Re:PNG version 2?? by Universal+Nerd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Missing feature is support for alpha-channels in MSIE.

    Single bit transparency (GIFs) suck compared to pages with alpha channel transparencies but since MSIE can't render them correctly they fail to make the market.

    Oh, there's another problem - lack of a good program to save PNGs. AFAIK, Gimp is the best PNG generator around all the Windows photo editing software I used to use (Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro) generated terribly large PNGs, I used to save them as GIFs.

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  2. Re:I have a thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree. I've done the gif/png comparisons on filesize for Slashdot, and they're really missing out on some good bandwidth savings. It would also be a nice "open" gesture and perhaps persuade a few other people to follow. PNG + CSS could be of tremendous help to Slashdot.