Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread M. Jama
There is a way to do that but it won't be CSS valid, since you'd have to use custom mozilla transparency and since the child will inherit the transparency properties make it outside the transparent div and movie it with position left right top and bottom, that should work I have a site that should

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
/Slightly/ off-thread, but... On 21/8/07 (04:02) Joseph said: Safari will sometimes show a different hue of your color than other browsers will when .png images set as backgrounds. I believe that this is a product of PNGs containing a built-in gamma profile; many browsers ignore it (as they

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 21/8/07 (04:02) Joseph said: Safari will sometimes show a different hue of your color than other browsers will when .png images set as backgrounds. On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 1, Rick Lecoat replied: /Slightly/ off-thread, but... I believe that this is a product of PNGs containing a built-in

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 21/8/07 (04:02) Joseph said: Safari will sometimes show a different hue of your color than other browsers will when .png images set as backgrounds. On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 1, Rick Lecoat replied: /Slightly/ off-thread, but... I believe that this is a product of PNGs containing a built-in

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Maben
On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:00 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: ...all the gunk with which Adobe products infest PNG files. I may be mistaken here, but I think the gunk can be dispensed with by using Save For Web rather than simply Save or Save As. Although it may be gunk on the web, this information

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 22/8/07 (20:15) Andrew said: I may be mistaken here, but I think the gunk can be dispensed with by using Save For Web rather than simply Save or Save As. I believe that a PNG's gamma information is retained in a Save For Web operation -- certainly I've seen colour casts in PNGs that I've

[WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread minim
Hi all - I've been set what I believe to be an impossible challenge, but before I admit defeat I thought I should cast it out into the wilds of the internet and see if others agreed or could suggest a solution. The challenge is this: to create a flexible (vertical and horizontal)

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread John Faulds
We're probably going to need to see your code and/or a link to the page to be able to make any reasonable comment. On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:28:57 +1000, minim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've been set what I believe to be an impossible challenge, but before I admit defeat I thought I

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread Nick Cowie
Caitlin It should be possible, depends on how much time you are willing to invest. I have always had problems applying AlphaImageloader to background images. So I don't even try. I would build the site so it worked in all modern browser. The using conditional comments apply a special CSS for

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Could you use solid background gif and then the opacity filter in your IE6 style sheet? I'm not sure if you can make the child of a translucent parent opaque though. Nick Cowie wrote: Caitlin It should be possible, depends on how much time you are willing to invest. I have always had

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread Joseph Taylor
Impossible? Not if you have a huge amount of time to put towards ironing out the issues. Realistically, however: Not only is getting .png's to work by themselves in IE a difficult task, but the flow of related problems is even worse. You have problems with hyperlinks that appear over any

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread Nick Cowie
Stephen asked: Could you use solid background gif and then the opacity filter in your IE6 style sheet? I'm not sure if you can make the child of a translucent parent opaque though. Yes and Yes, I was lazy and chose to do it via background colour rather than image (is was easier to get a colour