Re: [Bug-gnupedia]M$ Word and GIFs

[Tom Chance]

I have IE 4.1 on this computer, and have tried IE 5.0
in school, and I'm confused as to what you mean by
"broken". I cansee PNGs, there appears to be nothing
wrong with them, they dont' cause the browser to
spontanteously combust... and anybody still using IE3
should consider a better browser, like Opera or
Mozilla  (in windows) which isn't as bloated as later
versions of IE.

And if people have images that's fine. We'll have to
ask people to do something simple like write
<image></image> around each image, which won't be too
hard because there shouldn't be too many images in the
work anyway. 

Tom Chance 


--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > On 28
Jan 2001, at 4:00, Tom Chance wrote:
> 
> > When it comes to images, I think the PNG support
> is
> > fine. Opera and IE seem to handle them perfectly
> well,
> 
> I'm informed (I'm not a specialist in this so I
> don't know how true 
> this is) that the PNG support in IE 5.5 is broken.
> 
> Also notice that PNG support is not integral to IE5,
> and it is not 
> unusual for versions of IE pre-installed by
> manafacturers to have 
> PNG support disabled.
> 
> BTW. Which version of IE are you testing it on, I've
> just done a 
> clean install of IE3 and it doesn't have PNG support
> at all.
> 
> >>We will also have to allow people to
> > submit images of all sorts of formats, including
> GIFs,
> > because many programs don't support saving images
> as
> > PNGs. But we should ask people to save as PNGs,
> > afterall its just an option in the "Save As" (or
> > similar) menu!
> 
> I believe a GPLed gif->PNG converter exists.
> 
> > With Word files, we should ask people to again go
> to
> > Save As and save them as pure text. Its not that
> much
> > bother to do that with a few files really is it?
> > Because they'll have to sort out the formatting of
> > their text anyway to remove things that we won't
> > display like macros 
> 
> What about people who want to include graphics ?
> 
> Imran
> 
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