[tei-council] TEI badges in PNG/GIF formats; please review

[James Cummings]

David Sewell wrote:
> I'm already aware of one issue. The designer created these as
> transparent PNG graphics; the transparency is needed so that the '<' and
> '>' can float outside of the rectangle. If you look very closely at the
> difference between the PNG and the GIF format, you'll notice that the
> PNG is smoother as PNG transparency is subtler than GIF transparency.
> However, transparent PNG's don't work in some older browser versions,
> notably Internet Explorer 6 and before (the transparent sections appear
> in a light blue color).

Wouldn't it be better to have the transparent sections appear white in 
those browsers that don't do transparency?  just because that is a more 
common background colour than light blue?

-James

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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk