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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. Now if we ... by altp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... Could get web masters to stop using gifs and jpegs. Adaptation of PNG moves slowly, at least here, for 2 reasons.

    1) Web masters are more of a designer than a tech, they don't follow all the newest developments (most here still use HTML 1.0).

    2) Netscape 4.x doesn't load them, and administration feels that it is important to support the people that refuse to upgrade.

    Again, thats here ... but i'm sure these behaviors flow to many places.

    Altp.

  2. Re:Great! by brianmf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe some of you could take the time to sign a petition to help get (proper) PNG support in MSIE?

  3. PNG support in MSIE 5.5 by ptaff · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can actually display alpha layered PNGs on Microsoft Internet Explorer, starting from version 5.5, using an ugly workaround using DirectX and a CSS3 directive.

    Now, be prepared: it will work _only_ with tags, so no alpha for background images yet. Still, it's an improvement.

    I still don't get why they didn't implement it properly in the first place, let's not talk about it, it's a 1996 recommendation and I'm already so mad and frustrated by their bogus workarounds covering their flaws (XML parser bugs, ignores the IGNORE directive in DTDs, anyone?)

    Anyway, the trick is to use a CSS on all images:

    img { behaviour: url('/path/to/.htc'); }

    using the .htc file coming from here:
    Thanks

    You just have to point to a 1x1 spacer GIF in the .htc source.

    Works pretty fine, is compatible with Opera/Mozilla/IE and _at last_ you can get rid of 1988-oriented GIFs.

    Should you want to support IE 5.5, welcome to the future of the web of yesterday :)