Invisible wrote:
> Yes, that's right. Somehow they put text ON TOP OF an image. Not only
> that, but somehow they put one image ON TOP OF another image, WITH
> TRANSPARENCY. I have no idea how that's possible.

That has been possible since forever. Except in IE which didn't support 
alpha channel on PNGs.
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/demos/eagle-sun.html

> Last time I checked, there are two ways to put an image into a web page.
> You can use the IMG tag, which inserts an image in amoungst the text.
> (But you cannot put anything over the top of this image.) Alternatively,
> you can set the page background image, which is obviously behind
> *everything*. That means you can put things over the top of it.

You can put an image as a background on ANY element.

<div style="background-image: url(foo.png)">hello <img src="bar.png"></div>

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