From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 23 18:01:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17972 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (brnstnd@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17962 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from melange.gnu.ai.mit.edu by pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) with ESMTP id VAA02584 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:01:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (devnull@localhost) by melange.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id VAA15325; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:01:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 21:01:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709240101.VAA15325@melange.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: "Joel N. Weber II" To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: [newt@pobox.com: Re: Basic WWW PNG info needed] x-url: http://www.red-bean.com/~nemo x-attribution: nemo x-foobar: If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here is an example of where a stupid plugin API doesn't support everything that could be wanted--in this case, alpha channel wasn't supported. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Return-Path: owner-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:25:40 -0700 (PDT) To: png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu Subject: Re: Basic WWW PNG info needed From: Greg Roelofs Sender: owner-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: PNG Implementation List [snip] Whether a plug-in gets invoked for OBJECT vs. EMBED *is* a browser issue. The plug-in doesn't even exist at the time the decision is made. Likewise for the alpha-channel stuff: if the browser doesn't provide the proper hooks, there's absolutely nothing the plug-in can do about it. [snip] ------- End of forwarded message -------