- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> seems weird to me, that these 2 standards (gif and jpeg) got stuck in the > mire of history... Basically because they represent the limit of what most authors can understand. I suspect that TIFF, which is even older, can probably use different compression schemes for alpha and image channels, but I don't know of any browser that has inbuilt support. (From an HTML point of view, transparent images are something of a hack. Languages designed for presentational use, like PostScript, PDF, and SVG, use vector defined paths to clip the image.)
Received on Friday, 26 July 2002 13:15:32 UTC