>I sort of doubt it. The whole GIMPS project is oriented to techie types.
>Types who like to stay current with the latest technology and would upgrade
>their browsers frequently. Also add in the fact that Internet Explorer, last
>I heard, is gaining popularity and that IE4 and IE5 support PNGs
>(haphazardly, but enough for banner purposes), and that Microsoft practically
>forces people at gunpoint to upgrade, and so I'm guessing almost all IE users
>can see PNGs. In addition, newer versions of Netscape can see PNGs. That
>leaves, like, the Netscape 3 users. I really doubt that there are that many
>Netscape 3 users out there. (Doesn't it have the most primitive level of
>Javascript support and whatnot as well? Hopefully that would have annoyed
>users into upgrading by now. It sure did for me and IE3.) Maybe someone
>who's a webmaster could check their server logs and see how many non-PNG
>compliant people are viewing their pages; it'd be rather representative if
>Mr. Kurowski could do that. I think it'll be a small minority, maybe an
>order of magnitude higher than the number of people who still use Lynx.
Netscape 4.08 supports PNG but ignores the alpha channel. kfm understands the
alpha channel, but only on or off - it borderlines it at 7f or 80; and when it
prints a page with a PNG in it, the alpha is ignored. I recently had to do
layer surgery on a PNG because it didn't print right.
phma
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