[l2h] png images

[Robin Fairbairns]

wendy wrote:

> Just some information from a Web Graphics Design class
> about png files.
> 
> "The major browsers don't treat png
> consistently, so we recommend not using them for now. ...
> I'd suggest reoptimizing as either jpegs
> or gifs from the source files."
> May 2001.
> 
> So.... don't use png files;  jpegs and gifs are just fine
> and have been for a long time.

gif has never been a "fine" format: it has always been under the threat of
pending, and then the actual patents (yes, plural -- different companies) on
lzw compression.

it's now even rendered obsolete by a far superior format, png.

someone has got to start somewhere with pushing png.  i'm glad to see that
latex2html does it by default.

robin