Transparent GIFs and PNGs

[pduggan]

Thanks for the tip, Sean!

It's an excellent demo of why the images should be anti-aliased in the first place! (I tried it and, at the scale I'm working, which is 52x60 pixels for most of my 'buttons', it resulted in a really ugly, stepped image.) [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

No, I wasn't trying to make the fringe transparent - that's just a misunderstanding arising from my first two posts in this thread. As I subsequently discovered, it turned out to be just one browser making parts of my drawings disappear, so no worries anymore on that score. But I'm grateful to Gary et al. for explaining how the anti-aliasing works...

Seems like the most pragmatic solution is to have two sets of images if I want to use two backgrounds, and never to use a transparent, anti-aliased image on a page where the background is controlled by CSS. But thought I'd post, just for fun, my 'anti-anti-aliased' red boat. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Thanks again
Peter

[This message was edited by Peter Duggan on February 24, 2001 at 08:10 AM.]

[gwpriester]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Seems like the most pragmatic solution is to have two sets of images if I want to use two backgrounds, and never to use a transparent, anti-aliased image on a page where the background is controlled by CSS. But thought I'd post, just for fun, my 'anti-anti-aliased' red boat. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know it is a bore Peter, but that is the best way to do it. Give your images a title so you can distinguish one from the other, e.g. ship_r-bkg or ship_w-bkg, etc, when building your page.

Gary

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