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Old May 13th 04, 07:53 PM
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 07:54:03 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
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Well, PNG's better than both - unencumbered by any patents and any
browser newer than 3 or 4 years old ought to be able to render it fine.


....PNG has one benefit: it allows for transparency in high-res images.
However, it's damn near uncompressable, and I've found that just
simply doing a JPG with a border that matches the background is far
better looking than either a transparent GIF or a PNG.

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