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Re: Tired of click hinges
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:37:53 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Alex Roode writes:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, James Davis writes:
> > <<james- could be i'm an idiot (it's been said before) but when i visited
> > your
> > site in both netscape and ie, all the pic links were broken. please advise-
> > would love to see your stuff! thanks, moish>>
> >
> > I wrote about this on my main page, but I'll go ahead and post here.
> >
> > All of my images are in Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. This makes
> > them both smaller and higher quality than GIFs, plus there are no huge
> > licensing fees. With GIFs, Unisys owns a patent on the compression
> > algorithm and charges $5000 to license the use of their method. Being a
> > supporter of open standards, I boycott GIFs because of this.
> >
> > To view PNGs, you need the latest version of Netscape (4.74) or Internet
> > Explorer 5.0+ 5.01 works best so far.
> >
> > On a Mac, Netscape or IE4.5 should work.
> >
> > I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but this makes site maintainence much
> > easier, and takes up less space on my server. The site's already about 60
> > megabytes as it is.
> > Fortunately, I own the server so I have no fees for extra space.
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> Hey James, I use Netscape 5.0 and the pics don't work, but on my computer when
> I right click on the pic and select "view image" it opens the file in • Quicktime
> and I can see it fine.
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> --Me
Sorry, I meant Netscape 4.5.
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| (...) Hey James, I use Netscape 5.0 and the pics don't work, but on my computer when I right click on the pic and select "view image" it opens the file in Quicktime and I can see it fine. --Me (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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