Transparency and PNG format

[Phil Davis]

graham samuel wrote:

> (This leads me to ask if  is 
> there any disadvantage to using GIFs over PNGs - I kind of thought  
> there was, but I'm no longer sure why).

The only place I know of in our techno-universe where transparent GIFs 
are categorically better than transparent PNGs is in the IE browser - it 
doesn't support transparency in PNGs.

Phil Davis