Re: PNG files in a website
- From: Randy Morgan <rmorgan1016@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:32:50 -0500
Tell me about it! My wife refuses, on principal, to use a help file. She spent several years in publishing and considers herself a "Mac person". Windows is somehow beneath her. Go figure.
Randy Morgan
Rob Giordano (Crash Gordon®) wrote:
If you have PS use that!
I refuse to teach my wife PS...too much yelling would be involved.
"Randy Morgan" <rmorgan1016@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e%23NdP4niFHA.708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Actually, that was a JPG. I've been messing around some more and found | somebody who said you're using PhotoDraw you need to save to a BMP and | then "manually" convert to JPG (whatever that means). I saved from MIX | to BMP and used IrfanView to convert to JPG and it looks substantially | better, I think.
| | It might be time to wean my wife from PhotoDraw to Photoshop.
| | I appreciate you taking a look at it. Thanks!
| | Randy Morgan
| | Rob Giordano (Crash Gordon®) wrote:
| > You mean the guy in the upper right hand corner?...yep fuzzy. Use a JPG.
| > | > PNGs never really caught on I guess. The few times I've tried them I wasn't happy with results. | > | > I stick to jpgs for photo images, gifs for graphics...mainly although I've crossed the line many times, just depends on situ.
| > | > | > "Randy Morgan" <rmorgan1016@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OnqHeYniFHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | I'm interested in opinions as to whether PNG files are adequately | > | supported in today's primary browsers. (This isn't a programming | > | question -- yet.)
| > | | > | I (my wife, actually) is having a heck of a time getting good image | > | quality for the banner graphic in either JPG or GIF format. She's using | > | MS PhotoDraw 2000, and while it looks great as a MIX file a digital | > | photo within the graphic degrades (gets fuzzy) when she saves to one of | > | the other two formats.
| > | | > | When, however, she saves to PNG it looks great. In researching the | > | compatibility of PNG files and web browers I find that most of the | > | information I find is at least a year old.
| > | | > | So, while I realize this is not a graphics forum, it IS packed with | > | webmasters, so I'm looking for opinions: Would you be comfortable using | > | PNG files on your pages?
| > | | > | If the concensus is "no", then I'm on to my programming question: How | > | would I set up the pages to detect whether their browswer will handle | > | PNGs well and then download the JPG or GIF if it doesn't? I have the | > | banner in its own page, which I put into a layout cell at the top of | > | each page on the site using Insert - Web Component - Included Content - | > | Page.
| > | | > | If it's possible to detect using JavaScript whether the browser will | > | work with PNGs, I guess I could have a duplicate of each page with the | > | JPG included instead of the PNG for those that don't, but that would be | > | a pain. I'd rather swap the image, if that's possible. And, I realize | > | that not everybody has JavaScript enabled on their brower, but if they | > | don't they've got bigger problems on my site than fuzzy graphics.
| > | | > | Or, am I nuts and it's not that fuzzy? If you like, go to | > | www.leonardforiowa.com and tell me if I'm worrying about nothing.
| > | | > | Thanks,
| > | | > | -- | > | Randy Morgan
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