PNG Transparency: Linux Mozilla 20000414 Screenshots

PNG Transparency

Screenshots from Mozilla 20000414 for Linux

These are half-scale JPEG screen shots of the pngs-img.html, png-IceAlpha.html, and png-MagnoliaAlpha.html pages. They were taken by Greg using a Mozilla sourceball build from the evening of 14 April 2000, compiled on Slackware Linux 7.0 (glibc-based) after defining CAN_SUPPORT_8_BIT_MASK in mozilla/modules/libimg/pngcom/ipng.cpp. (The build was in all other respects a completely stock version, and all builds since early July have enabled full alpha support by default. See also Makoto Hamanaka's Bezilla screenshots.) Click on them to see the full-scale, 24-bit PNG images (450917, 417136 and 741956 bytes, respectively). Also check out the default-build screen shots, taken with a completely stock version of Mozilla as of April 2000 (which used dithered binary transparency to approximate true alpha blending).

pngs-img.html

png-IceAlpha.html

png-MagnoliaAlpha.html

Mozilla's rendering of PNG transparency is nearly perfect, and it does gamma correction, too. But this version (April 2000) still had an interlacing bug that caused a rough appearance in most of the images (particularly along the edges of the penguin, owl and icicles). That bug was fixed the following month.

Here are some related PNG pages at this site:

Last modified 14 March 2009.