On 4/24/06, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 14:16 +1200, Steve wrote: > > I've got a bit of a problem with a website and, surprise, surprise, IE. > > I've got a png image that has a transparent background, which doesn't > > display properly in IE, as it doesn't support transparent pngs. When I > > use the gimp to convert it to a gif, I end up with an image of appalling > > quality. > > I've generally had success with using gimp for conversions of this type. > What's the problem with the resulting gif? > > Roy. > >
The problem is that the GIF format has only a 1-bit transparency mask, as opposed to PNG, which is 8-bit. In other words, A pixel on a GIF image can only be opaque or transparent with no in-between. I think.
