PNG Transparency

Screenshots from OmniWeb 3.1rc2 for Mac OS X

These are half-scale JPEG screen shots of the pngs-img.html, png-IceAlpha.html, and png-MagnoliaAlpha.html pages. They were taken by Andrew Abernathy using OmniWeb 3.1rc2 on Mac OS X Server 1.2. Click on them to see the full-scale, 24-bit PNG images (511879, 325403 and 595114 bytes, respectively).

pngs-img.html

png-IceAlpha.html

png-MagnoliaAlpha.html

As with several other browsers, OmniWeb's handling of PNG transparency appears perfect, but the extreme darkness of the original TIFF screen shots suggests that it does not do gamma correction. Greg will try to verify that shortly.

Here are some related PNG pages at this site:

• PNG support in Browsers
• Browser screenshots:
  • Internet Explorer 5.0 for Mac OS
  • iCab 1.9 beta for Mac OS
  • Arena beta 3b for Linux
  • Mozilla 2000-04-14 for Linux
    • also using random-dithered binary transparency
  • CSCMail 1.7.8 for Linux
  • Dillo 0.6.2 for Linux
  • Konqueror 3.0 for Linux
  • Opera 6.0b1/TP1 for Windows and Linux
  • NetPositive 2.2 for BeOS
  • WebTV

• PNG Home Page
• Complete PNG Site Map

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