Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:48:28 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> >> This is why www.gnu.org does not use GIFs--to remind people that the
> >> community needs to move away from that format. The net can still
> >> escape from the grip of the LZW patents, if the popular browsers can
> >> be made to support PNG.
> >
> >Looks like the new Netscape layout engine, "Gecko" will support
> >PNG.
> >
> >http://www.webtools.com/story/browsers/TLS19981223S0005
> >
> >I don't know about Opera and IE, but if Netscape has it, and it is
> >a standard, the others shouldn't be far behind!
> >
> >(Or so I hope.)
>
> The existing Netscape 4.x releases support PNG just fine. I
> dunno about IE3/4 though. Can anyone test IE3 and IE4 for PNG
> support?

OmniWeb v3 (and v2.x for that matter) supports PNG. :)

/David Weinehall
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