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.PNG support | Stefan | PNG obsolete ?? (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.09.2007, 22:05

> Mostly true ... just no PNG and limited JPG support only, and some others
> are open source ("freer")

Yes, but I meant that for all its features, there is not quite a comparable "small, 8086" image viewer (at least, not that I know of, I'm sure some hardcore old-skool 8086er might've written one ... I should ask Jim Leonard).

Yes, true, some are "freer" (though good luck defining that, seems BSD and GPL disagree big time).

> > Already asked him for my FreeDOS floppy distro, and he refused
>
> But what ? Source release ? Adding PNG ? Allow redistributing with your
> Distro ?

"No" only to source release, redistribution is okay. I didn't ask about .PNG, though (unlikely to be implemented, would take much more than a simple tweak).

> Missed something ? PNG "really just" as temporary hack obsoleted
> by LZW84 patent expiry ? PNG is the by far most useful image format ...

Yes, you're right, it's much better designed, more powerful, but one of (if not THE) main goals initially WAS to replace the patented .GIF format.

> and if a browser or viewer doesn't support it - fault of the browser or
> viewer And it's for photographic images as well (lostless, but
> less compression than JPG of course)

Yes, I mean, AFAIK it was never intended to be for photographic stuff. And I forget which, but old IE (5.0?) was supposedly kinda broken re: PNG. So it's not quite as common as .GIF or .JPG (or at least wasn't until recently, credit that positive shift to Mozilla Firefox being FOSS).

Anyways, just read the spec here.

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