Posts tagged 'Google-Chrome'

PNG Colour Rendering on the Web

When is a colour not a colour? When it's in a PNG image file and you want to display it in a web browser!

I have recently been working on a website which includes a number of PNG images which are generated at run-time by a piece of VB.NET code. During testing we noticed a number of discrepancies between the colours being rendered in the image and the colours specified in the site's CSS file.

To make matters worse, the behaviour varied from browser to browser. Google Chrome behaved as desired - a perfect colour match. Internet Explorer appeared to render the colours in the PNG darker than we wanted. When we tried Firefox, the colours in the PNG were rendered with a different shade of the desired colour (a slightly purple tinge to our desired blue, in our case).

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10 October

The First Real Browser War

When you look at the major players in the web browser market since the dawn of time (1992), there have been two major periods of change in market share.

The first, between 1995 and 2000, saw Microsoft destroy Netscape's market share with successive versions of Internet Explorer (IE). The second started in 2004 and is, arguably, still going on as Firefox slowly nibbles away at IE's market lead (the last figures I saw showed Firefox's share at 21%).

These are often referred to as the 'Browser Wars'. And they were fiercely contested - but few bystanders would've bet against Microsoft's eventual victory.

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22 September