Transparent PNG Image

Victor Odhner plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:22:59 -0700


Are you saying that this will be ugly except for Mozilla users?
Is that because it's .PNG instead of .GIF?

Vic

Brian Cluff wrote:
> The gimp does transparent PNGs.  Just make the part that you want
> transparet, transparent (let the white and grey grid show though)
> and save it out.
> PNG's can actually have full alpha channel worth of transparency,
> but only mozilla seems to support it.
> If you are running mozilla see www.azgeocaching.com 's logo at
> the top left of the page for an example of full transparency.
> If you go there is a different browser it gives you a gif that
> have a dither patter to fake the same effect... badly.