[Irl-dean] PNG

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Brendan,

I just wish to pick your brains here, in one of the last posts you
mentioned:

> The use of .png files is one I have particular problems with as well. 

I am curious as to why, if you could shed some light?

>From a design perspective PNG is an excellent file format in that it is
equally as happy handing both vector style graphics and raster images,
it can happily deal with compressed (lossy) and non compressed images
and it also it has much better transparency support than gif files, so
you get much more realistic transparency as opposed to the rather binary
support that gif has. Just look at the Mac OS X environment to see PNGs
in action as desktop and docking icons.

Support for PNG has in the past been a little bit patchy but IE 7 is
supporting them now.

Could you please elaborate a little?

Thanks

Josh


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