“In reference to support for the PNG standard, Chris Wilson, lead programme manager for the web platform in IE, said: “We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the web design community. Our first and most important goal with our CSS support is to remove the major inconsistencies so that web developers have a consistent set of functionality on which they can rely.”
While Microsoft and critics of its web browser have focused most of their attention on IE’s security liabilities, the issue of standards support remains crucial to web developers.”
Yesterday we reported that Microsoft was being sued over the JPEG patent, so perhaps this is a good move to push a format which has less strings attached.
Read more of the story at Silicon.com
