RE: PNG files

7 Sep 2001

      Hello,

I too have been investigating the png format (see
http://burnallgifs.org/) but find that, when they are served over the
web, IE (5.5) displays them okay but Netscape (4.76) does not, although
it doesn't crash. If I look at the page with the png file locally, it
displays fine in both Netscape and IE... curious! To summarise:

			Local	Server
Netscape (4.76)	Y	N
IE (5.5)		Y	Y

Any clues?

All the best,

Anthony Lewis

C. Anthony Lewis
Petroleum & Environmental Geochemistry Group,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
University of Plymouth,
Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, U.K.

tel: +44 (0)1752 233000 ext. 2988
FAX: +44 (0)1752 233035
e-mail: calewis@plymouth.ac.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Mary Masson [mailto:che055@abdn.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 September 2001 10:08 AM
To: chemweb@ic.ac.uk
Subject: PNG files

Hi folks,
Has anyone noticed problems with .PNG files?  One of my students did 
a web site using some .png files, and try to load any of his pages in 
Internet Explorer 4 caused the program to close down.  

OK - I don't usually run IE4 (or IE anything, if I can help it) but 
it seems that the people at the RSC are still running that.  They 
say "As far as I'm aware we're due to upgrade our kit next year, 
which probably means that's when we'll upgrade our browsers to IE5."

However, if you are using PNG files, it is probably useful to know 
about the problem.

Mary Masson
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Dr Mary Masson
Department of Chemistry
University of Aberdeen
Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3UE

Tel 01224 272931   Fax 01224 272921
email m.masson@abdn.ac.uk

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