- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:28:49 -0500
- To: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@calweb.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, "Chris Wendt" <christw@microsoft.com>
On 22 Aug 97, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > [..] > the most natural, useful ways. In particular, an <IMG> tag with a > PNG src will work with built-in support, but an <OBJECT> tag will > look for a plug-in, even though PNG support is built in, so you > can't do the nested object fallback thing. > > This fails on IE4: > > <object type="image/png" src="/images/test1.png"> > <img src="/images/test1.gif"> > </object> Netscape has similar problems too. > Also, IE4 does not send image/png in its HTTP-Accept headers, so > you can't do content negotiation either. Finally, neither gamma That's a significant problem, actually. But should be simple to fix in theory. Rob --- Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl (wlkngowl@unix.asb.com) (Se habla PGP.) http://www.wusb.org/mutant/
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