RE: do vector graphics enhance our concept of self? from Jon Hanna on 2002-07-26 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:51:19 +0100
To: "WAI List \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHCEBKEEAA.jon@spin.ie>

> yes but PNG never seemed to really take off, so why?

Well, because it does what you want to do.

Partial support for PNG has been in the most commonly used browsers for a
long time. When you consider that it wasn't the "standard" format for a
system which gave GIF a head start on CompuServe it took off pretty quickly.

Received on Friday, 26 July 2002 12:51:25 UTC