Re: [css-d] pleeeeease help.....png problems

[jeffrey morin]

On 6/7/07, Dejan Kozina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here is the research. Mordor itself says so:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306231
>
> The plain word translation is that IE (on WinXP with SP2, to be precise)
> won't load a .htc file unless it's served with the correct MIME type of
> text/x-component . The Apache web server doesn't come with this
> preconfigured out of the box; you have to put it there yourself, either
> into the main configuration file httpd.conf (if you know what are you
> doing and if you have access to it at all, which almost always isn't the
> case on a shared server) or into a plain text file named exactly
> '.htaccess' in the same directory where the .htc is served from. Done
> that, you don't have to link to it: Apache itself will read that file
> before serving any content from the directory.
>
> There is one other thing that can go wrong with .htc stuff: while IE
> does respect in general the specifications stating that the path to
> files referred to in a stylesheet is relative to the stylesheet itself
> (this means: if you have a css stylesheet in /css/global.css with a rule
> like {background-image: url(image.gif);} the browser must get image.gif
> from the css folder), when it comes to .htc files (maybe others too, but
> I haven't noticed yet) IE makes a mess of it and looks for them all over
> the place, mostly (not always) treating the path as relative to the html
> file (who said IE is boring?). The simplest solution is to use the full
> URL to point to the .htc (eg.: behaviour:
> url(http://bioneutrix.com/css/iepngfix.htc); ).
>
> That said, I noticed that you kinda gave up on the htc going rather the
> javascript way. As I see it, the conditional comment should load
> javascript/pngfix.js for versions of IE lower than 7, while the script
> itself runs only for versions of IE higher or equal to 5.5 rewriting the
> img element with a span with display: inline-block and the rest copied
> from the original image with an AlphaImageLoader filter applied. Not the
> simplest of solutions to debug, I guess.
> Right now your problem in IE6 is that the javascript isn't loaded at
> all, as far as I can see. I suspect the culprit is the conditional
> comment - you wrote on line 14 <!--[if lt IE 7.]> : notice the dot after
> the version number, stuff like this can throw IE off its tracks...
>
> djn



thank you very much for your help. i will read more into it before asking
any other questions. much appreciated

Jeff
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