On Friday 15 December 2006 00:00, Petter Urkedal wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
> > IE doesn't support PNGs with alpha.
>
> I should have tried to save as gif right away, then I'd realise that
> it uses colourmaps (one colour being transparent, I presume).  I
> tried different image formats, and PNG and TIFF are the only ones I
> found which supports a real alpha channel. TIFF does not work in FF 
> (and probably not in other browsers). 

TGA also supports an alpha channel, but it only has RLE compression, and 
it's not supported by any major browsers either.

> So, it seems there is no
> solution except Lourens' trick.  It's strange this hasn't been
> resolved, it must be a real PITA for web designers.

Yes, Microsoft is a real PITA for web designers. And for just about 
everyone else of course. Sometimes I wonder where the computing 
industry would be if Microsoft never existed. We'd probably have flying 
cars by now...

Lourens

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