[Wylug-discuss] a webdesign query / mini rant

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Dave Fisher wrote:

> The tricky bit is authoring the 'special'  Microsoft .ico format in
> Linux.

Is that necessary?  I thought just slinging in a .bmp of the correct
dimensions should get what you want for web use.

> Not 'therefore'. IE does support PNG _and_ transparency, but it only
> supports semi-transparency in PNGs (alpha blending) via a proprietary
> extension.
>
> This will be fixed in IE7.

It will be a good day when 8-bit alpha is supported by all browsers.  But then
it's not like they've been in any rush.

jh

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