In message , Mayayana
writes:
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So, yes, I see it as potentially useful for online,
in a limited way, but otherwise of no value. I only have
a handful of PNGs on my system and they all seem
to be charts from webpages. The only value unique
to PNG is transparency, but I don't usually have a reason
to want that, and I don't know of any tools to take
advantage of it.
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Even that's not totally unique (is this a rare case where that phrase
can be validlly used!): one of the other formats, GIF I think, has the
option of declaring one of its colours as the transparent one. (Come to
think of it, .ico must as well). I gather PNG has _degree_ of
transparency, which is different - the others have only yes or no.
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