[thelist] PNG and alpha channel ?

[Andrew Clover]

> I can't help but wonder why you would need transparency in
> a background image?

Predominantly for liquid pages. With fixed pages you tend to know what part
of a background will be under an element further up on the screen; with
liquid you don't. You can do lots of very nice effects with nested or
layered transparent backgrounds, even with 1-bit-transparent GIFs.

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