Det er muligt at gamle browsere ikke kan læse png. Men alle nyere browsere kan. Formattet blev en standard 15 Jan 97 PNG spec 1.0 released as Informational RFC 2083 (IETF)
hvilket kan ses her.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pnghist.htmlSe også som er sakset fra ovenstående link
On the other hand, our buds at Microsoft recognized the benefits of PNG and apparently embraced it wholeheartedly. They have not only made it the native image format of the Office97 application suite but have also repeatedly promised to put it into Internet Explorer (theoretically by the time of the 4.0 betas--we'll see about that). Assuming they do, Netscape is almost certain to follow suit. (See? Microsoft is good for something!) At that point PNG should enjoy a real burst of WWW interest and usage.
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5 May 1997 - As promised, the first 4.0 beta of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (released one month ago) does indeed have native PNG support, although it's not yet complete. Meanwhile Netscape's approach seems to be to let someone else do the work: Navigator 4.0 will have enhanced plug-in support, possibly even including a fix for the IMG/EMBED problem, but they have left it to Siegel & Gale to write the actual PNG plug-in.
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11 November 1997 - As foreshadowed above, Netscape Communicator 4.04 was released today with native PNG support (albeit written from scratch by a Netscape employee, not as a collaboration with Siegel & Gale as reported above). Together with Microsoft's early-October release of Internet Explorer 4.0, this means that PNG is supported by current public releases of essentially every browser on the market. Granted, it will be a while before the newest releases of the Big Two achieve serious market penetration, and both of them are still regrettably weak in their support even of features as simple as alpha channels and gamma correction. But as of today, the Portable Network Graphics format can truly claim to be a success. YOW!
Hvor mange år siden er det nu lige du har hørt det? 5 år siden ;-) Jeg vil tro at samtlige grafiske browsere som er frigivet inden for de sidste 4-5 år har haft understøttelse af PNG.