Climis, Tim wrote: > And/or: Is there a better way to do this whole task? Meaning: solving > the icky-image-edges problem without using high-res images (which I > assume take longer to load)? > > ----------------------- > > What you're running into is that GIF's don't have variable > transparency. It's either transparent or it's not - no 50% opaque. > That means that it can't anti-alias your text well. Using PNG's > instead of GIF's would fix that. IE6 doesn't support PNG > transparency but all the other browsers (IE 7 and 8 included) have no > problems. > > ---Tim > ______________________________________________________________________
[quote=Tim] "IE6 doesn't support PNG transparency..." [/quote] Just a pedantic point - I think you mean "IE6 doesn't support PNG semi-transparency...", yes? If you use PNG-8 then IE6 treats both fully transparent and semi-transparent pixels as fully transparent. I'd recommend PNG-8 for most images anyway, as they can be optimized to be quite small - smaller than GIFs, anyway. And, to bring it into the realm of CSS, there's no need to use IE6 hacks to use PNG-8. Check out these articles: <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/> <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/> (Of course, you still get icky image edges in IE6, but there's not a lot of alternatives...) Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
