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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