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Topic: When will people get it?

Fear not, it has nothing to do with the election. Here goes:

JPEG: Suitable for images with a large variety of colors and complex, irregular patterns. E.g. photographs, rendered images, drawings etc.

PNG/GIF: Suitable for images with fewer colors and variations and in particular, large areas of the same color. E.g. screenshots of GUI's, logotypes etc.

If in doubt, use PNG. I prefer a dithered PNG with fewer colors to JPEG artifacts. If I see one more GUI screenshot or logotype that has been jpegged beyond recognition, I don't know what I'll do. My eyes are still bleeding after visiting http://www.postgresql.org/ and looking at the logo at the top.

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Re: When will people get it?

wost thing ever is IE not supporting PNG transparency

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Re: When will people get it?

"Proper PNG Support in Internet Explorer for Windows".

Currently at 18455 signatures. I actually don't think MS cares about this at all...

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Re: When will people get it?

there is a little javascript to fix it i think

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Re: When will people get it?

Yes there is a fix. I did see a really good tutorial about transparency in IE, I will have to look it up.

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Re: When will people get it?

The logo in my site is Transparent and PNG in IE, i change the theme to see it, what the problem?

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zaher wrote:

The logo in my site is Transparent and PNG in IE, i change the theme to see it, what the problem?

Partial transparency i.e. variable opacity.

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Damn, i hate graphics, i still not understand?

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Rickard wrote:

My eyes are still bleeding after visiting http://www.postgresql.org/ and looking at the logo at the top.

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Wow, that is pretty bad.

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zaher wrote:

Damn, i hate graphics, i still not understand?

Like the example on this page
http://www.daltonlp.com/daltonlp.cgi?it … tem_id=217

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Re: When will people get it?

Another world for me, "Partial transparency" also called "Blend", know i now thanks.

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Re: When will people get it?

partial transparency is great for things like shadows that you want to fade into the background and you might want to look cool on any background

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