ResidentWeevil2077 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 PNGs do have transparency, but Internet Explorer won't show transparency in PNGs. In FireFox, or any other browser, PNGs with transparency work perfect, except the transparency shows up as plain white in IE. The opposite side, GIFs, have a certain number of colors allowable per image (255), and partial transparency won't work. So you have limited number of colors (low quality with large images) and you can't have pixels that represent 50% opacity, or whatever. It's just a matter of choosing.IE6 couldn't dispaly the transparency of PNGs, but IE7 can perfectly. GIFs to me are only ever used for very simple graphics, PNGs for high quality web graphics, and JPEGs for when details and quality are not necessary. BTW, PNGs can actually have animation, either by way of MNG (as in "ming", now an obsolete format), or through APNG, a new web graphical format for animated PNGs. Firefox 3 is the only browser as of today that will support the APNG format (it still uses the '.png' file extension). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Wolfe Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 That transparency stuff is all fine and dandy, but it means nothing because theotaku.com doesn't accept PNG :wallbash: Looking at the facts (old browsers have problems with it, PNG has features) I see it would be very difficult for me to persuade the website into becoming PNG compatible. Unless....... (help me out here people) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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