<p>This is my recollection as weel. Available != standard<br>
Youngster :P</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 28, 2011 7:19 PM, "The Don Lachlan" <<a href="http://ale-at-ale.org">ale-at-ale.org</a>@<a href="http://unpopularminds.org">unpopularminds.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:18:30PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:<br>>> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:55 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>>> > Um. You're showing your youth :D We were stuck with gif's for a<br>
>> > decade before png was a standard in browsers and even then IE took<br>>> > longer to support it.<br>>> Uhm... I beg to differ! Maybe you're having a old^Wbrain fart?<br>>> The first Web browser came out in 1991, and PNG arrived in 1996. MSIE<br>
>> 4.0b1 (from near the end of 1997) supported it, as well as Netscape 4.04<br>>> (from July 1997).<br>>> I say that a decade is either new math or a senior moment. ;-)<br>> <br>> There was a much longer period before PNG became a "standard" and MSIE support<br>
> for PNG has always been wanting.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Web_browser_support_for_PNG">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Web_browser_support_for_PNG</a><br>
> <br>> My recollection is that until at least 2001CE, GIF was pushed over PNG<br>> because of MSIE's broken implementation.<br>> <br>> -L<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>
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