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		maxst on Feb 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The PNG image file format is now more popular than... > can be easily fixed (in most cases) by using iepngfix for IE6 It could be even more easily fixed by using GIFs instead. I assume that's what many people thought. Thankfully, IE6 is finally dead and no one have to worry about PNGs anymore.

kijin on Feb 1, 2013 [–]

GIF doesn't support alpha channel transparency, so you won't be fixing the same problem.

maxst on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

I guess 1-bit transparency was considered "good enough" in most cases, otherwise static GIFs would have disappeared years ago.

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