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Transparency is not supported on all browsers, for more information see
PNG-supporting Browsers
Now one obvious thing that you can see by reading this chart, is if you
want animation you need to use GIF, but
if you want to present photographs you need to use
JPEG (or perhaps PNG).
But what if you want to show an animation on top of a photographic background?
There's no obvious solution in the chart!
Fortunately, as far as web design is concerned,
there is a solution: take advantage of
GIF's
transparency option, plus a bit of clever
HTML coding,
to place the transparent GIF on top of a
JPEG background.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how (in three chapters):
Slicing Up The Background Next, I'm going to slice up the background into segments. The idea
is that each GIF animation can be placed
over a separate segment.
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