Posted by Neredbojias on 02/05/06 21:19

With neither quill nor qualm, Toby Inkster quothed:

> Neredbojias wrote:
>
> > It's because it's a png. IE doesn't do png transparencies well. Try a
> > gif.
>
> And with a little creativity, you could serve up a transparent GIF to any
> browsers with "MSIE" in their user-agent string, and a PNG to everyone
> else.
>
> Alternatively, there are a few tricks to get IE to handle alpha-blended
> PNGs. They don't make for pretty coding, but can give you pretty pages.

Quite true, although I think AJF has a bit of a point. Anyway, alpha
pings confuse me so I prefer the simplicity of a gif (with, sadly, its
256 color limit) when dealing with web transparencies.

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Neredbojias
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