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Bill Bither likes the PNG format for graphics. In the start of his article, he lays out some of the nifty features that separate it from GIF and TIFF file formats. But there's more. "However, perhaps the best thing a PNG has to offer is what's called the alpha channel. An alpha channel is one byte of extra data per pixel (or palette entry for 8-bit images) that represents the transparency level of a pixel. A PNG image with alpha is capable of 256 levels of transparency. What does all this mean? For one thing, you can antialias text and images so

As web standards advocates, many of us participate in numerous online communities such as mailing lists, forums, newsgroups and even blogs (both our own and comments on others). In these communities, we often encounter beginners who are either just starting out with HTML, or have been doing HTML for a while, but are new to the concept of developing with standards. Invariably, such beginners face the eternal question of HTML or XHTML; and today, I intend to answer this question (as it applies to beginners) once and for all. For experienced users, the

Multimedia is pictures, sounds, music, animations and videos. Modern web browsers have support for many multimedia formats. What is Multimedia? Multimedia is everything you can hear or see: texts, books, pictures, music, sounds, CDs, videos, DVDs, Records, Films, and more. Multimedia comes in many different formats. On the Internet you will find many of these elements embedded in web pages, and today's web browsers have support for a number of multimedia formats. In this tutorial you will learn about different multimedia formats and how to

Most of us have heard about PNG by now, but few developers are using it on the Web due to the uneven support within the various Web browsers. The format was developed as a result of the Unisys/GIF controversy and the need to overcome the limitations of both the GIF and JPEG formats. Macromedia has adopted PNG as the native format for its Fireworks product, yet most users are still converting images for the Web to GIF and JPEG. The next generation of browsers promise more complete support for all the features of this format, but one must wonder if it