Browser support issues? Here is why...

BTW - I copied that logo in two other formats:

Jpeg – 17K

Gif – 2.4K

I also redid it as a .png at 975 bytes, slightly less than the one you made at 1723 bytes.

Clearly, PINGs are superior for web-site optimization (faster loading for dial up users, who still makes up most of the net.)

The problem is in browser support, but mostly only if you made the image as an alpha transparency. I use IE 5 and 6, so if you did, I wouldn’t be able to tell; however, I checked it on Firefox and it appears that you did not make it as a transparent image, so it is OK.

Browser that support PING format are:

Windows: Netscape 6, Opera 6, and Mozilla 1 (Firefox)

Mac: Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 6, Opera 5, Mozilla 1, OmniWeb 3.1, and ICab 1.9

Linux: Opera 6, WebTV, and Sega Dreamcast.

The exception is IE does not support the alpha transparency feature.

NS4 (Nutscrape) and IE 4, do not, as far as I know, support PINGs.

A way around the above old browser problem is simply to take everyone who has not upgraded to something newer out to the street and shoot them; or, you could try a javascript (I hear it’s cheaper than bullets.) Anyway, kidding aside, the javascript would be able to detect older browsers and issue an alternate gif of the logo. A noscript tag could be added if javascript was not enabled; however that would leave you with only an alt image tag to tell the user this is a qbasic logo. In short, there is no perfect fix if you want to use PING, so, I would suggest converting it to a GIF, instead. At 2.4K against 1K, it really does not present that big of a loading speed problem.

Pete