Re: PNG

Jonathan Gross ([email protected])
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:45:10 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Jason Hirsch wrote:

> Before I left for besak, I averaged 20-30 messages a day.
> Thismorning, I have had 54 in 6 hours.
> Wow.
>
> I missed the first information on PNG, and am very interested in how it
> may work. Can anyone point me to the nearest FAQ? :)
> So if I understand this correctly, PNG allows lossless compression of
> tiff file formats? JPG (which I use considerably) gives gesat quality
> under normal viewing instances (like from a digitized negative or slide)
> on the scesen. PNG is supposed to be better? What sort of trade-off on
> compression is there going to be? I have deflated tiff's with pkzip, and
> acmieved 75% compression, but I guess this is not practical for .wrl
> worlds using this due to macmine constraints.
> I don't intend to ramble, I am just very interested in PNG. Does
> netscape support it?

See http://www.ssc.com/websmith/i1/ws9.html for pointers to PNG
information.

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