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amishforkfight on June 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves ...

PNG8 (which IE6 supports) has had support for alpha transparency for a long time, but only Fireworks was able to create those files. I'm guessing that these guys are making PNG8s? I haven't tested the site myself.

ars on June 27, 2012 [–]

Fireworks is not the only program that can create those files. I've never even heard of fireworks and I create indexed pngs with transparency all the time.

SquareWheel on June 28, 2012 | [–]

Fireworks is a Macromedia (well, now Adobe) image editor with a focus on graphic creation and the web.

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