Whilst building a new web site, I decided to give PNG images a go because gifs, just were not working. The result was fabulous. They came out perfectly.

Only thing was I looking at the page in Firefox.

PNG images are a recommendation of the W3C consortium for web standards.

Now here’s the bad news….

I went innocently to look at my page in IE and lo and behold the images had an ugly gray
rectangle - where they were transparent. I first thought that I was a doofus, but then I realised it was just another cross browser foible.

IE does not fully support PNG images, despite them being a way superior format with no patent issues like gifs.

On the good guy side we have MAC and Firefox. In the light of the recent debacle with ActiveX I believe that Microsoft could engender some Public Relations Kudos, by releasing support for this format at all haste.

I have signed a petition requesting this and I would ask that you also sign it - there are so
far 25000 signatories requesting this support from Microsoft and most of these would be web designers, not people in the street.

So if you want a better web, and support for PNG should you one day decide to use it, please lend your voice to this popular petition and let’s see if we can get something happening on this.

Here is the link