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Sep 19, 1998, 5:29pm

[View Quote] >Tell us about PNG Dthknight...

See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/ and particularly
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngintro.html .

PNG is not a replacement for JPEG, but it's better for images with
sharp edges and/or few colors (especially text-based signs/logos/etc.).
Zipped BMPs are in the same class as PNG, and support for them would
be trivial to add to the browser since it basically already exists.
PNG support would be nice but would also be more work, especially if
Roland were to try to support full alpha-blending and gamma-correction;
I'm sure he has higher priorities.

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Greg Roelofs n_e_w_t_(at)_p_o_b_o_x_(period)_c_o_m
Newtware, PNG Group, Info-ZIP, Philips Multimedia Center, ...

Jul 25, 1999, 2:12pm

[View Quote] >Actually most VRML plug-ins (Blaxxun, Cosmo, Netscape's Livewhatever,
>etc) use RW as the rendering engine. ;P

You've been smoking something, Eep. No VRML browser has used RW since
Cosmo 1.0 (which actually was Netscape's Live3D 2.0), and that was two
years ago.

Current browsers, including Cosmo 2.x, WorldView, Cortona, blaxxun's
Contact, Lookat, FreeWRL, etc., all use either OpenGL or D3D or both.
Source is available for a couple of them.

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Greg Roelofs n_e_w_t_(at)_p_o_b_o_x_(period)_c_o_m
Newtware, PNG Group, Info-ZIP, Philips Research, ...

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