From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: help with a bit stream.... Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <3gf5es0iaumhrrrl8it0olk2ct7qf72orr AT 4ax DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Trace: /bQNubahmMLrn/FmsxN5r2zlDhgvzflMoac+9Cizll4EOT3eFnR7G3McNrLiUy+oUa0ZWjOxk0LC!8Y2vtpOepFWVr7EtCf67e64ZfvNZW+5eFlKfZ2UG9k787Ilcuwd81h2xox7mmlYeQWbccDmbqAoK!ggqFNxg= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 03:23:10 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 03:23:10 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 05:16:23 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote: >I know that GIF's suck etc..But the problem is that animated GIF's >are a great thing For advertisement banners. And that's about it. Where else do you see GIF animations on professionally created sites? Even banner ads are going away from the GIF format in favor of Flash animations or embedded HTML. >and there is no other way to achive this other than using >large amounts of Javascript to do the animations... Which can be stashed away in a .js file and called when needed. >Also on this PNG VS GIF subject, how many browsers support transparent >PNG's? None at the moment, but exactly why would you need a transparent image? That is, unless you're making one of those slow-loading, annoying tags? I just set the background color of my PNG files to the background color of my page (generally Readable White). -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/