- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:41:54 +0200
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday, July 24, 2004, 12:56:56 PM, David wrote: >> With IE/Win having over 90% of the market share at the moment, it /must/ >> be "the dominant browser", yet it implements GIF transparency on which >> many users depend; could you clarify exactly what you mean here, David ? DW> GIF has a special case of transparency, a binary alpha channel. PNG DW> has a proper, analogue, alpha channel, but authors cannot use this when DW> they want transparency because IE doesn't support alpha channels in PNG DW> images. Well it does, but poorly - the alpha channel is decoded and understood, but he image is composited ontoa grey background instead of the actual background. I have also seen older browsers composite onto solid black, or onto the background color in the actual image. DW> That means that PNG will not, in real life, fill one of the DW> main roles for GIF in web pages. In Win/IE. It works just fine in Mac/IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Konqueror. Its getting that the only thing holding content creators back is Win/IE, pretty much everything else has moved past it in functionality. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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