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Re: 2.24, see what it does to GIFs in IE

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From: Cory McWilliams
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00
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Wow, I never knew that.
Do most browsers support PNG files now? I'm just wondering whether it's
really worth changing over the images at my sites.

Cory

Robert Schlabbach <robert@powerstation.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote in
message news:7r2o60$qr2$2@news.creativelabs.com...
> CK <knight.shade@NOSPAMANvirgin.net> wrote in message
> news:7r10br$o05$1@uranium.btinternet.com...
> > In IE 5 the GIF's, any GIF's are virtually invisable, the spectrum,
> becomes
> > black or transparent, you can barely see anything.
> > oooer, oh dear.... help.. should I try installing the 2.17's or am i
able
> to
> > do something about this?
> > I'm a web designer so it's kinda imperative I'm able to view gifs...
>
> GIFs? Are you keen on shelling out $x,xxx to UniSys? In case you haven't
> heard, they charge up to $5,000 per website for using GIFs now. You should
> use the PNG format instead, it's free. File format patents suck rocks.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Robert Schlabbach
> e-mail: robert@powerstation.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
> Technical University of Berlin, Germany
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: 2.24, see what it does to GIFs in IE
Date: 1999/09/07
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