What Is The Future of PNG?

miladus writes "The GIF patent (held by Unisys) will expire on June 20. C|Net wonders whether that will also mean that PNG "will lose its original reason for being". Remember Burn All GIFs? " My hope would be that at this point PNG can stand on its own technical merits, rather then on ideological merits.

Comments

i've burned all my gifs

[jellybear]

to cd

Choosy mothers choose GIF!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not PNG.

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Re:Choosy mothers choose GIF!

[fgb]

Beware of geeks bearing GIFs!

Re:Let's face it

[Surak]

I know. I even see ANSI graphics now and then. ;)

ought to be enough

[gylle]

One bit, that ought to be enough for anybody... :-)

What is the future of PNG?

[FrostedWheat]

What is the future of PNG?

PONG

Re:here's hoping.

[ostrich2]

Here is a rather funny page (since the author's disbelief and anger at IE's horrible behavior is palpable) which does a good job of explaining the issue, and supplying a few workarounds.

I will say this for the guy: for a non-native english speaker, he got the expletives working perfectly.

Maybe it'll become mainstream someday

[Furan]

Howard Stern was complaining that he couldn't open PNG files this morning.. "Why can't I get a bitmap or a JPEG?"

Re:Sure

[asdfasdfasdfasdf]

Yes, but people wouldn't get the joke if I put 72,057,594,037,927,936 * better. :-)

Re:PNGs

[Hugonz]

Tell them to open it in MSN Explorer =)

Re:PNGs

[ChristTrekker]

Send your coworkers the Mozilla installer as an attachment.

Someone's intellectual property expiring??

[ader]

You mean they didn't lobby congress to extend patent terms by fifty years retroactively? Jeez, don't they know how to do business in the modern world?!

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Re:problems with PNG

[amentia]

Yeah, like when they replaced the Internet with MSN...

Re:Let's face it

[sharkey]

I even see ANSI graphics now and then. ;)

Case in point.