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Sunday, September 18, 2011

A List Apart: Articles: Cross-Browser Variable Opacity with PNG: A Real Solution

A List Apart: Articles: Cross-Browser Variable Opacity with PNG: A Real Solution: "someone tells me about the magic of PNG, how it’s the ideal image format for the web, and that someday we’ll all be using it on our sites instead of GIF. People have been saying this for years, and by now most of us have stopped listening. Sadly, flaky browser support has made PNG impractical for almost everything; but now, with a few simple workarounds, we can finally put one of its most compelling features to use.

PNG? What?
The Portable Network Graphics, or PNG (pronounced “ping”), image format has been around since 1995, having cropped up during the now long-forgotten GIF scare, when Compuserve and Unisys announced they would begin charging royalties for the use of the GIF image format."

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