On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, David <david.no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the compiler could however detect if transparency is needed than > the whole DirectX filter could be avoided. But in reality, we use > transparency all over the place. Most of the transparency is just > binary so a GIF would be capable of handling this. The banding issues > are ofcourse a potential problem, but all our icons use the same color > palette - so I think that we won't notice. > If the transparency is just binary, then IE6 already supports PNG transparency, right? Aside from the hassle of detecting if a one-bit alpha channel will do, I think the J2D libraries we currently use won't generate one-bit alpha channels (I could be remembering incorrectly however), so we would have to find something else. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
