Posted by CrackWilding on 10/29/50 11:50

This might not the best place for this, but what the heck. I've got a
page that has a bunch of 24-bit PNG files with transparency. For IE I'm
using the AlphaImageLoader filter to get around it's limitations with
the format. I've been doing this for about a year, having seen Google
successfully deploy the solution with Google Maps, and I've never had
any problems with it.

Well, now I've got a client that's having a problem. Some (not all,
oddly) of the PNGs on his website are displaying with a bunch of black
stuff on top, like a censor went over them with a black marker.
Transparent PNGs do this when printing sometimes, but I've never seen
it onscreen. The client is using IE6 on Windows XP. So I checked half a
dozen computers with the same setup and haven't been able to reproduce
the problem.

The only difference I can detect is that he's using a Comcast
co-branded copy of IE. I suspect that Comcast may have damaged
something... who knows?

Any thoughts? I can't post the site, unfortunately, but I've posted a
screenshot of the problem here:

http://saltydogdesign.com/usenet/blackstuff.jpg

Cheers,
cw

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