- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:14:37 +0100
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Fine, understood, thanks for the clarification. ** Phil. -------- David Woolley wrote: > GIF has a special case of transparency, a binary alpha channel. PNG > has a proper, analogue, alpha channel, but authors cannot use this when > they want transparency because IE doesn't support alpha channels in PNG > images. That means that PNG will not, in real life, fill one of the > main roles for GIF in web pages.
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