OT - PNGs

[Mickie]

We have had some discussions on the the merits of PNG over GIF along with the problem of browser support. There is an article at A List Apart with a work around for support of PNG in most browsers. Thought it might be of interest to some of you PNGs

Mickie

[Mickie]

We have had some discussions on the the merits of PNG over GIF along with the problem of browser support. There is an article at A List Apart with a work around for support of PNG in most browsers. Thought it might be of interest to some of you PNGs

Mickie

[gwpriester]

Thanks Mickie.

Gary

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[pduggan]

As a great PNG enthusiast, I'm bookmarking that straight away!

One small qualification however:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>IE5.5+/Win, bless its heart, will, in fact, display a PNG, but it doesn’t natively support alpha transparency. In IE5.5+/Win, the transparent area of your PNG will display at 100% opacity—that is, it won’t be transparent at all.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This may be true for true colour + alpha, but simple (not sure of the technical term for this) transparency in 4 and 16 bit PNGs has worked in IE since at least IE5 (likewise Opera 5). So, if you just want straightforward icons etc. anti-aliased to your page background, you're looking back to version 4 browsers (eg Netscape 4.x) before their transparent parts become opaque.

Peter

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[pduggan]

For '16 bit PNGs' in my reply above, read '8 bit PNGs'. So I knew I'd posted this mistake somewhere, but I've only just found it!

Peter

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?