[ale] LightScribe for Linux

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 21:54:21 EDT 2011


This is my recollection as weel. Available != standard
Youngster :P
On Jun 28, 2011 7:19 PM, "The Don Lachlan" <ale-at-ale.org@
unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> 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
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