What about YoungPup's solution to transparentizing pngs?
It seems it's been updated, but worthy reading on the subject...
http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
Jv
On 30 Jan 2004, at 04:16, Chris Blown wrote:
Just for the record...
I wouldn't recommend using this, but it does
Transparent PNG's are unsupported in IE/Win - you have to use some
DirectX malarkey to get that running (don't).
I haven't yet found any problems with normal PNG's but then I use PNG8
as a Gif replacement.
HTH
James
Anton Andreasson wrote:
Anyone knows of the support for background (24bit)
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?
Transparent PNG's
The gray box appears in IE when someone specifies an
alpha channel in the PNG -- IE can't handle the
transparency, so it renders a gray background. I
expect it would be the same with background images.
There's an IE 6 workaround to PNG transparency,
someone else will have to tell you about it
I use a piece of software called TweakPNG [
http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/ ] which enables you to create a
background color to cope with transparency issues in IE. The background
color is only added when necessary, but it means that you have to rework
PNGs when you change the color. It
Just for the record...
I wouldn't recommend using this, but it does work. This is totally a
DirectX hack and only works in Windows IE.
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/image.png',sizingMethod='scale');
Regards
Chris Blown
PS. I am not totally against CSS
