OT - .png extension

Re: OT - .png extension

paul womack

> some pics with a .png extension.

What program supports or is used to open it?

PNG image format home page

Supporting Apps

BugBear

Your browser should open it

Ellis Walentine

>Put the local address of the file in your browser address bar and it should load for you.

Ellis

download irfanview *LINK*

Pat Riley in slc

>Its a great little free application that will load just about any graphics format. It boots alot faster than most, and is easy to use.


http://irfanview.com/

a sad situation

Steve Strickland

>PNG is a wonderful image format that employs transparency in high resolution images. There's no other format that does this (not even GIF) so web designers would dearly love to use it. All major browsers with one significant exception have supported PNG for years. Alas, Explorer does not support PNG.

Here's a PC Magazine article on it:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1645331,00.asp

Microsoft admits their shortcoming here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;265221

Here's an online petition urging Microsoft to support PNG.

http://www.petitiononline.com/msiepng/petition.html

You Microsoft folks have probably never seen graphics of the sophistication that PNG delivers so you don't know what you're missing. Believe me, it's beyond all other formats in the wonderful images and beautiful effects it can do.

No web designer worth his salt is going to use PNG because Explorer doesn't support it. Even if Microsoft added support today it would still be years before PNG became a common web format.