[TYPO3-core] RFC #14602: feature: PNG with alpha transparency

Dmitry Dulepov dmitry at typo3.org
Mon Jul 26 12:30:00 CEST 2010


Hi!

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Gif and PNG-8 images also have "transparency", even if it's only a
> colour which is made transparent when displaying the image.
> The PNG images I'm trying to create have an extra 8-bit channel for
> transparency.
> 
> We already have transparentBackground and transparentColor which are
> used for creating the Gif/PNG-8 "transparency".
> 
> If there is a name which can describe the transparent channel and is
> still understandable by integrators, I'll use it!

Thanks for the explanation! I think alphaChannel makes more sence in this
case :)

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