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Re: Overlaying inline images

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Fri Nov 18 16:55:24 1994

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 22:27:53 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: brian@wired.com
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>

On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Bob Kanefsky wrote:
> Is there any chance that browsers in the future can be made to accept some
> kind of overlay markup, specifying that two or more transparent GIF images of
> the same size and shape should be displayed one on top of another as one
> inline image?

Better yet - is there an image file format that supports something like this
natively?  GIF95?  If so, then it simply becomes another image format that a
browser needs to/should support the inlining of, or shuffle off to an
external browser. 

	Brian

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