Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:13:07 +1000, Andrew Harris wrote: Learned friends - hope you can help me. I am having trouble matching transparent png files to html background colours. The dodgy test page here: http://www.woowoowoo.com/pngtest/ illustrates the effect. twe melb wrote: As far as i

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Ben Dodson
Please don't give up on PNG for the sake of one old make of browser! Give IE 5/6 Windows its own style that's usable but not quite as pretty. That has 42.3% of the market share. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp I use 24bit transparent pngs on my sites and then use a

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:58:05 +0100, Ben Dodson wrote: Please don't give up on PNG for the sake of one old make of browser! Give IE 5/6 Windows its own style that's usable but not quite as pretty. That has 42.3% of the market share.

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-11 Thread Joshua Street
On 4/12/07, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8-bit PNG works very well, even in IE 5.01. Graphics programs such as Photoshop add a lot of cruft to PNG files, so you need to get an optimizing tool. The result will likely be significantly smaller than a GIF. This is true. Alpha info

[WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
Learned friends - hope you can help me. I am having trouble matching transparent png files to html background colours. The dodgy test page here: http://www.woowoowoo.com/pngtest/ illustrates the effect. It's pretty self explanatory, but I want to run a div which matches the page background and

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread James Gollan
PNG has built in colour correction that creates problems when trying to match against a hexcode in the browser. If you really need png you can export a small backgroound tile for the area that it needs to blend into. http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ On 4/11/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread dwain
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 22:13, Andrew Harris wrote: I specify the page background to #003366 In photoshop I specify the starting blue of the vignette to #003366 I also create a 20px square of #003366, set the opacity to 50% and save out a png24 with transparency save it to a png8 and you

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
James, http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ thank you so much - explains everything! @Dwain - I need 8bit transparency, so png8 is not an option no, the article referred to by James has convinced me, sadly, that png24 is just going to cause me too many troubles - I'll have to find another way.

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread twe melb
As far as i know png alpha transparency does not work well in IE 5.5 and 6, it seems to only works in firefox, JavaScript must be use to fix this problem. check out this site, it might be of help to you http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm, i tend to avoid the use of png as it is

RE: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Samuel Richardson
: Wednesday, 11 April 2007 2:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files As far as i know png alpha transparency does not work well in IE 5.5 and 6, it seems to only works in firefox, JavaScript must be use to fix this problem. check out this site

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Harris
On 4/11/07, twe melb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as i know png alpha transparency does not work well in IE 5.5 and 6, Thanks, you're right - but no problems there as I'm serving an extra css to grumpy old browsers It's a shame there are so many problems with png24 as the lack of a viable

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 4/11/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble matching transparent png files to html background colours. The dodgy test page here: http://www.woowoowoo.com/pngtest/ illustrates the effect. On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:22:03 +1000, James Gollan advised: PNG has built

Re: [WSG] colour matching transparent png files

2007-04-10 Thread Lachlan Hunt
twe melb wrote: As far as i know png alpha transparency does not work well in IE 5.5 and 6, Correct. it seems to only works in firefox, And IE7, Opera, Safari, etc. i tend to avoid the use of png as it is not cross browser compatible, Nonsense! Aside from alpha transparency problems