Actually, there is a "Fix" for PNG's in IE. A .HTC that you assign to img tags to load the PNG into the Microsoft.LoadAlpha.PNG (Or whatever it's called) class transparently (Pardon the pun).
IIRC, it was on http://webfx.eae.net On 6/18/05, Dave Hofstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very cool. Thanks for putting all that work into it! I think my new > html pages kinda cover the same thing you are doing, but I'd like to > see your finished product. I have no php skills, so I just made > thumbnails of all the items on Myxer's website. > > I think what people are looking for eventually is some kind of php > thingy that would have like one area about 480 pixels at the bottom of > the screen that shows a little preview of mythfrontend's main menu, > and by selecting buttons or icons or whatever from little drop-down > lists, they could change the preview at the bottom of the screen. > That'd be pretty wicked for sure! > > IMPORTANT NOTE: the links to Myxer on your site actually point to > MythCenter website. Myxer's website is actually.. > > http://lisadaveh.home.comcast.net/myxer > > > Inline comments below > > > - transparent png's: very nice, but resizing with php is not so easy and > > internet explorer can not show them decently > > What's this 'Internet Explorer' thing you mention? I thought using a > non-standards-compliant browser disappeared in the last ice age. It's > like driving a car that only works on some of the roads. heh > > Transparent png's are a must for most of these buttons because most of > them 'fade' out, or have a semi-transparent shadow. To my knowledge, > jpg will not handle this as well. > > > - a typo: it's button_blue_square_flat_bluetwo.png and not > > button_blue_sqare_flat_bluetwo.png > > Only one? Amazing. heh, I'll fix that this weekend. > > > > - I tried to sort the backgrounds because each color has the same 4 "types", > > but then I realised, why not let the user create his own background? Give > > him a type and let choose him the color. To be implemented somehow .... > > That'd be cool. I suspect most people won't/don't use the ver1 > bacgrounds. They were really a exercise in concept. I am not really > happy with the variations in colors, and the poor quality of > compression on some of the colors. I will think about making the > type-->color choice options in the future. My only problem is I may > eventually scrap some of them in favor of a more nicely done set. > We'll see. > > This Monday the pool goes in, I have been chopping lumber from trees I > had trimmed, messing with the stupid septic system (which actually > turns out to have 2 fields instead of just one), running buried > electrical to the pool area, tearing down portions of my deck, dealing > with delivery people, dealing with installers, dealing with > electricians, and moving a garden of rocks to the other side of the > house. I can hardly type this email, I hurt so bad. Myxer is likely > to slow down for a week or two. heh > > I plan on making the above changes this weekend, and my next project > is contacting some 10 KDE icon creators I found on kde-look.org. I > would like to see if I can get at least 5 more sets of icons for > people to choose from. All of the icons I am thinking about are GPL'd > or LGPL'd or DSL or Artistic2.0 liscensed. I would think the first > three should be no problem to include, but anyone in the 'know' could > tell me more if they like. > > > Maybe some of this is implemented in the new MythUI concept, I don't know. > > It will be next week before I can do some more work on this. > > I wonder what timeline the MythUI concept is on, and if we might end > up with a 'Myxer' type selection where all aspects of the UI are > separate. That way people could just come up with iconsets, or > buttons rather than whole themes, and theme quality is bound to soar > if that is the case. > > Dave Hofstra > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
