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Plenty of new and interesting revisions to the original Fahrner Image Replacement technique sprouted up in late 2003. This is an attempt to consolidate them, so that perhaps we can decide on the official replacement.

Yes, you heard right. There's finally a fix for the IE6 background image flicker bug. IE6 seems to check for a newer version of the background-image css property on links (A tag) every time you move the mouse over a link. This causes the flickr. The fix e

This tool lists a number of javascript scripts designed to embed various objects in HTML pages, such as images, flash animations, movies and iframes. Comparison of various scripts that display images and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups

Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g.

Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ads? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.

The drop shadow, Web 2.0's greatest asset. Well not really, but all the same they do look pretty nice, but are still a pain to implement. Who wants to go into potoshop, load your image then go through the hassle of adding the drop-shadow, etc. Combine

Google released what they call the Static Maps API. Not unlike the previous Google Charts API, this is basically just a parametrized image URL - the light-weight* sibling of the JavaScript Maps API.

Ping works by optimizing a variety of aspects of the PNG format (palette, compression parameters, IDAT chunks, etc.) but it does not remove any image information from the file. Since PNG is a lossless format, it certainly wouldn't make sense to throw away