- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:51:52 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-evangelist@w3.org
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 4:22:33 AM, Karl wrote: KD> Le 11 juil. 2007 à 00:37, Dan Connolly a écrit : >> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif >> 2006/11/24 01:20:24 >> Er... tips should be sentences of the form "do something", no? KD> no strong feeling, but why not. It seems reasonable. >> so perhaps: >> Tip of the Day: Choose graphics formats (GIF or PNG) carefully >> or better: >> Tip of the Day: Consider PNG instead of GIF for images KD> Yep. PNG had a big problem in IE 5 to 6. Alpha channel was not KD> supported. It was supported to the extent that GIF was, ie fully transparent colors were indeed transparent. They made a really poor implementation for semi-transparent colors though. KD> See IE blog about that KD> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx KD> But as of today, it seems to be a reasonable choice for more people KD> since the release of IE7. >> p.s. >> I'm a bit surprised to see "GIF's strong point is that it is very >> widely >> supported and thus well established as the default choice for simple >> graphics on the Web." KD> See above. And not ethat PNG had the same leverl of support that GIF had when the last major browser to add NG support), IE added it in IE4. Netscape added it in Netscape 4.04. Most of the other browsers had it earlier than Netscape. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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