> Yes you can use the IE6 PNG filter. 
> 
> However note that IE6 implementations before the service
> packs will not support this either. 
> 
> And yes there are major installations of IE6 on these older
> subversions of IE6.  This used to trip me up all the time.
> To the point that I no longer bother, just replacing the PNG
> in IE6 with the GIF.   All park of  the not for perfect
> experience for IE6 users.

One of the main (only?) arguments for supporting IE6, is to provide a somewhat 
decent experience for corporate users who dont have the luxury of upgrading the 
browser.

The argument against the upgrade is that corporate web-tools will fail after 
the upgrade; then using an argument that those tools cant be rewritten as the 
company doesn't have coders on staff.

This argument is circular, either a) the company has the coders available to 
create the IE6-specific tool and thus can upgrade the tool to use a later 
version of the browser, or b) they dont have coders and thus they couldn't have 
developed the IE6-specific product.

My $0.02... dont stress about backwards compatibility for IE6... it the site 
needs IE6 support, do that work last - you can then at least get paid for it.

cheers,
Mathew Robertson


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