Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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Mr. Hacker mentions the "mysterious" lack of support for PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files in Internet Explorer has one of its two major shortcomings. Actually, PNG support is there in IE, the application is just shy about the fact. Extremely shy. In denial, actually.
To fix IE so that it will display PNG images, open IE's Preferences dialog and go to the File Helpers pane. Click on the "Extension" word at the top of the scrolling list to sort the list by the file extension and then scroll down to ".png". There are two entries that cover PNG files which can be edited with the Change button. Change the pop-up list in the "Handling" section to "View in Browser" from whatever it may be. Voila! Instant PNG support.
I don't know if this pseudo lack of support for PNG is a deliberate political choice on Microsoft's part or simply an oversight. It is possible that they are avoiding support for (and thereby slowing widespread adoption of) a format for which Apple owns at least one patent... but that would be a wild-assed conspiracy minded speculation on my part.
Gibbons Burke