The PNG Transparency Trap
Graphics, Graphics Format, Web Client
Yesterday’s featured tutorial on Ajaxian.com was titled: Hacking transparent PNG support into IE6 with IE PNG Fix, CSS and jQuery by Brian Dillard.
I wonder how this tutorial got onto Ajaxian as the topic is so much out of date. Ajaxian has always been a place of inspiration and a pit stop for the latest and greatest in the world of JavaScript and the whole Web scene. I was a little put off by this tutorial, though out of curiosity took a dive in anyway.
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In the spirit of progress enhancement, which they avidly promote, they should have ignored IE6 and gave those users square boxes! However, for this particular case we’re in luck as there is an alternative—convert those dreaded PNG32s into transparent PNG8s!
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Full article: http://yelotofu.com/2008/04/the-png-transparency-trap/
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in May 2008
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