>
> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > >> background is not white --- there's a white ring around each
> > >> continent thanks to poor antialiasing.
> >
> > > We force a cream background for that page, no?
> >
> > It's gray on my browser (Netscape 4.0something). Even if it were
> > cream, the background of the gif is *white* not cream, so the ring
> > would still be there (maybe a little harder to see though).
> >
> > Since GIF hasn't got partial transparency, you can't do real
> > antialiasing without making the background colors match.
> > You're probably best off not using transparency at all, unless
> > you forget about antialiasing. (Or is it antialiasing that's
> > leaving the near-white pixels there? Maybe it's just sloppy drawing
> > of the border of the transparent region?)
>
> I am confused. I don't even know what anti-aliasing is. Nor do I
> understand why you get a grey background. I am running Netscape 4.5,
> and I see the background of all the pages as off-white.
If the <BODY> doesn't define a background, Netscape uses it's
(configurable) default one. So your config say's white (why
not slategray?).
Jan
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