IE problem with .png files? 128bit

bledd · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:00

http://dontlose.co.uk/

have that page, and in IE it looks really dumb.. its not transparent?

in FF it looks fine tho, is it just IE being crap?

hendrix · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:11

Thats because IE is just crap

Try using .gif extention for the transparacy, as they should work in IE.

Space Cowboy · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:23

IE doesn't support PNGs with transparency. There is a way, but it's a bit of hack. IE 7 should work fine, when that comes out.

Everything else (recent) supports them fine.

bledd · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:29

is there a way of making sure the users of my site can see it in IE? (can i force this 'hack' to install?)

or is there a way of having a browser check in my index.html file, so..

if browser=IE redirect to.. /usefirefox.html

?

Jotun · 21 Jan 2006 at 17:51

Something like this?

NathanE · 21 Jan 2006 at 18:13

It's not that IE "is crap" it's that IE is 6 years out of date in terms of features. The PNG format has only been gaining popularity the past 2 or 3 years really.

Thankfully, IE7 (Beta 2 of which will be released soon) has full PNG support.

arty · 21 Jan 2006 at 19:39

NathanE said:
It's not that IE "is crap" it's that IE is 6 years out of date in terms of features. The PNG format has only been gaining popularity the past 2 or 3 years really.

Thankfully, IE7 (Beta 2 of which will be released soon) has full PNG support.

The PNG format pre-dates IE4, I believe. In addition, why half-support a format? It makes no sense. Far better to blanketly not support it than offer broken support.

I'd compromise by saying IE's PNG support is crap

arty

robmiller · 21 Jan 2006 at 19:41

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/

NathanE · 21 Jan 2006 at 20:05

arty said:
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PNG was only standardised in late 2003 though. Which is why I say it's only recently gained widespread support and being pushed to the defacto web image format.

Who knows. Maybe somewhere in the specification regarding transparency it said "subject to change" or similar. So that prompted Microsoft to delay implementing it until it was standardised. They've done it before, particularly in IE, regarding CSS.