{"id":1873,"date":"2007-06-05T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/safari-and-pngs\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T14:35:56","slug":"safari-and-pngs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/safari-and-pngs\/","title":{"rendered":"safari and pngs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing a new public site for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interdubs.com\">interdubs<\/a>. I am almost done.  I needed a png file. Of course they looked different in Safari and Firefox. Actually, to be precise, they looked wrong in Safari. There is problem some academic reason why safari displays them with all that fancy color information rendered in. 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