We do resizing using JPEGs across the board, so that makes transparency a problem in general. I did try PNGs, but the files were huge.
FYI, I've updated my avatar to have a white background, but the first post herein also has an attached file showing the transparency as black on the thumbnail.
Offtopic: PNG24 ftw.
Floris, I like you, I really do. But telling people to upgrade isn't solving the problem. GIF isn't dead and saying that it is, is well, ignorant. I use a modern browser on a modern operation system on modern hardware and having my avatar turn into a black box would still be disappointing (which it is). BTW: What does a browser have to do with this thread at all? If anything you should argue that filesize isn't a problem since modern computers and internet connections are fast enough to handle a transparent PNG avatarGIF to me is like IE6, dead.
PNG ftw. Just upgrade the browser or accept it's not showing perfect. Times change. Legacy support should only go that far.
We do resizing using JPEGs across the board, so that makes transparency a problem in general. I did try PNGs, but the files were huge.
Mike, as I was doing my signature badge I looked up some of the functions for GD, and imagepng() supports both the use of PNG compression via a quality setting from 0-9, and the use of PNG filters to reduce the filesize even further. Did you try using these features when you said that "the files were huge"?
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