Re: [HACKERS] Re: map

> 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.

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