[Wikipedia-l] PNG format???

[Guillaume Blanchard]

Bonjour Ralph,
Personnaly I use PNG files since long time and never ran into any problem.
You can found part of your answer here :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Aoineko

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ralphem at aol.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] PNG format???


> Eric,
> There is a basic problem with your logo, logo contest, and use of art in
> general -- a good number of us out here cannot see them! ALL of the art on
your
> pages discusssing the logo contest come up with a red X in place of the
art. You
> discuss the fact that you want all logo designs in PNG format, but this is
a
> format that not all systems (Mac) and not all browsers (AOL 5.0, the only
> software available for older Power PC Macs) support -- so you are cutting
out a
> sizeable portion of potential viewership. I'm a graphic designer, but I've
never
> used, nor have I had to use, PNG format for any image. TIF, JPEG, GIF and
EPS
> are the standards for graphics, and JPEG AND GIF are the standards for use
on
> the web when people with non-graphic software or systems need to view
them.
> One of the guiding principles in the development of the web has been to
honor
> the common person, probably one using an older computer with
unsophisticated
> software, and not freeze them out by demanding they constantly download
the
> latest "fireworks" or whatever in order to just view a common page.
Backward
> compatibility is an important concept, and is worth keeping whenever
possible. Most
> of us are still using dialup 56K modems out in the world -- web entities
that
> load up their pages with sophisticated cutting-edge animations and hi-res
> long-loading photos and art are virtually assured of loosing me and
millions of
> others as potential viewers. Same thing applies with your art -- coding
your
> artwork in PNG format closes out a lot of potential viewers -- put them
JPEG and
> your viewership and useability will increase. Take a look a Amazon.com or
any
> other highly successful web business -- their pages open just as pretty in
my
> Mac as they do in the latest Pentium blazer, and they don't use advanced
> formats. Let's keep it low tech -- PNG is an unnecessary complication for
the
> project. Thanks for listening.
> Ralph McGeehan
> ralphem at aol.com
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