Hi all, First off, I understand how PNGs have an alpha channel and all that, and I know that no browser seems to properly support PNGs. If I have a PNG (with transparency) on a HTML page, the wrong colour 'shows through'. Is this an IE issue? Any ideas? Sample here. For me, the page BG is white, but the image background is grey. Do you get the same?
PNG compatibility is a known problem for IE. I know that Opera displays them correctly, but I'm not sure about other browsers.
well looking at the screen shot provided by 486hawk netscape isn't displaying it properly either - it's blending the transparency with black instead of white. guess i'll have to not bother with PNGs for a few years...
thanks Hamish - that's how it should look. but given that 80.5% of the visitors to my site use MSIE6, looks like i really will have to wait for proper support.
Hahaha, good luck! Actually, you can get PNG transparency working in IE... do a search on MSDN for filterrogidXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader Watch out though, I tried doing that with rollover buttons and it would occationally crash IE, but it's fine for static images.
I have got the AlphaImageLoader technique working (a little help from howtocreate). Ouija: I wanted a particular look only achievable with alpha transparency, but will probably stick to GIFs for now. (see here for a demo (IE4+ only sorry), the difference is only slight - the shadow fades to fully transparent in the top image (a PNG) whereas it fades to white, then cuts to transparent in the second) PS the background is a white GIF with transparent dots so I can choose the colour of the lines by setting the bgcolor...
Ah, you can always rely on good 'ol Firebird . None of that screwed up "coding" (or so Microsoft calls it...IMO its crap )
yeah, but i can't rely on all my guests using firebird... could you guys do my a favour a take a screenshots of how this looks in different browsers? would really appreciate it.
