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Eudoxus
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 Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2000 6:51 pm |
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Hey Peoples. Im currently designing logos and graphics for my friends website. Problem is however, I can only achieve, low rez Gifs with transparencies. I've heard about this new PNG format, but im a tad suspect. Can anyone clear up this transpearent issue? (sorry, bad pun... 
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megazoid
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2000 7:06 pm |
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You should hear from those more knowledgeable, but transparency isn't supported in jpg, and PNG is the only way to go if you want alpha effects in a browser. I know IE supports PNG, not too sure about Netscape, but after all, this is a Micro$oft world, eh?  |
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extralobe
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2000 7:54 pm |
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Both Netscape and IE support PNG, but both have issues. They only support 1-bit transparency (ie, you can have fully-transparent or fully-opaque, but nothing inbetween).
Mozilla/Netscape 6 currently supports PNG alpha channels properly, but i doubt much of your audience is using that right now.
PNG also can get better compression than GIF.
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Eudoxus
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2000 4:13 pm |
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Yeh everybody's got some issue or rather. Hmmm.. okay, well thanks for that guys.
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