[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[The Don Lachlan]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:18:30PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:55 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Um. You're showing your youth :D  We were stuck with gif's for a
> > decade before png was a standard in browsers and even then IE took
> > longer to support it.
> Uhm... I beg to differ!  Maybe you're having a old^Wbrain fart?
> The first Web browser came out in 1991, and PNG arrived in 1996. MSIE
> 4.0b1 (from near the end of 1997) supported it, as well as Netscape 4.04
> (from July 1997).
> I say that a decade is either new math or a senior moment.  ;-)

There was a much longer period before PNG became a "standard" and MSIE support
for PNG has always been wanting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Web_browser_support_for_PNG

My recollection is that until at least 2001CE, GIF was pushed over PNG
because of MSIE's broken implementation.

-L