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- From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
- To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Website - images
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:23:31 +0000
Aloha,
I'll adjust the tracking a bit. Hmmm, smooth gradient from light to dark purple...BTW, does the purplish blue and green irk anyone?
I liked Chad's 3-D looking logo much better than the IMO cartoonish font in current one.
I can't say exactly how PNG works, though I believe the palette is larger, and its similar to GIF in approach.
PNG is the more sophisticated and "free" (e.g. international standards-group-developed public-domian) replacement for GIF (GIF algorithm is owned by Unisys or someone like that and royalties are legally due on software that incorporates it to produce GIF output).
PNG is a "lossless" format, like GIF (JPEG is "lossy," that is, when saving as a JPEG, image data is discarded).
PNG supports both horizontal and vertical image data scans (GIF only one, horizontal I think) so depending on image it may give better compression. However being "lossless," on average it performs about the same as GIF in 8-bit mode.
In 24-bit mode it of course produces much larger image file sizes.
PNG supports both 8-bit and 24-bit color palettes and as Bear says stuff like...
... 256 levels of transparency.
And I believe alpha channel is in the spec also, though I think there's very little support for that even yet.
Plain 8-bit PNGs are reasonably well supported on more recent browsers.
Multiple levels of transparency are more iffy.
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Re: [pcplantdb] Test3!!!,
Stephanie Gerson, 12/16/2004
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[pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website - images,
John Schinnerer, 12/17/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] Website - images, Richard Morris, 12/17/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website - images,
John Schinnerer, 12/17/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/16/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] Website, standards, browsers, John Schinnerer, 12/17/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/16/2004
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[pcplantdb] Website, RDF,
Bear K, 12/16/2004
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