Richard Robinson wrote: > > > The newer > > > PNG format is just as good, and free, but not yet as popular. > > > > Why? For exactly one reason: browsers (the big one esp) were not > > supporting png until recently. And since one must expect quite a few > > users to still be using their 4.0 or 5.0 browsers it's still not "safe" to > > use png on web pages. Sad, since png is superior to gif in all ways > > Yes. I thought of switching the images in my "Tunebook" over to png a > couple of years ago, but a little bit of checking and asking around > convinced me that there were just too many browsers that wouldn't do it. > Newer versions might, but that doesn't mean older ones have disappeared.
For Linux, the latest Netscape I could get (the last time I checked) was 4.51 or something like that, and I don't think it does PNG yet. And on my laptop, on which I run Windoze 98, I got a later version of Netscape and hated what they'd done to it, so I still use a 4.xx version there, too. Rick To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
