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Recently, the <IMG> element has undergone the largest enhancements of all HTML 2.0 elements, on the way to newer HTML standardisation. This is due to the <IMG> element being probably the second most important mark up element (behind the Anchor element) as it handles all embedded graphical content in HTML documents.
The attributes commonly supported by the <IMG> element have had some recent additions to allow Client side Image Maps, embedded In-line video clips and also embedded In-line VRML worlds
A note about formats.
Netscape and Mosaic (and most other browsers) will only support use of .GIF and .JPG images ( Netscape also supports progressive JPEG images) within HTML documents. This can be extended with Netscape, by embedding image formats within pages, providing the format is one that the user will have software to handle installed on their system, or they have a plug-in module specifically to handle that type of image (see <EMBED>).
The Internet Explorer though, will allow the use .GIF, .JPG, progressive JPEG images, .PNG (portable network graphics) images and also .BMP files, giving the author a wider variety of image formats from which to choose.
Netscape and Internet Explorer now fully support the GIF89a format, which means that multi-image GIF files can be used to create animation sequences. Users are encouraged to seek out the GIF Construction Kit for more details and tools for the preparation of multi-image GIF files.
The 'non-dithering palette'
As described in the <BODY> topic, both Netscape and Internet Explorer will dither graphics that don't use the 'non-dithering palette' for their colour scheme. For more information on the colour options supplied by the 'non-dithering palette', see the relevant section in the <BODY...> topic.