Jamie Le Souef

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2008-12-18

5 Ways to fix IE’s PNG transparency-issues

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I hate Internet Explorer – I really do.

As a web designer there is nothing more annoying that designing the perfect site, writing the perfect, standards compliant code only to find IE looks like garbage in Internet Explorer 6 and , to a lesser but still painful extent, 7.

But, as a good web developer ignoring IE entirely is not an option. Especially when IE6 and 7 combined still command something in the order of 75% of the market (if not more) so we deal with the problems as best we can.

One of these such areas is the PNG transparency support in Internet Explore 6 – more specifically, the lack there of.

Over at Net Tuts they have a great Videocast featuring 5 techniques on how to fix the transparency issues in Internet Explorer 6. The cover the following techniques:

Unit PNG Fix

DD_BelatedPNG Fix

IE7.js Fix

Twin Helix Fix (from Angus Turnbull)

Don’t Fix It! (Seriously)

These solutions have there pros and cons and I’ll leave it up to you to choose. Click here to check out the screen cast!

There are 3 Responses to “ 5 Ways to fix IE’s PNG transparency-issues ”

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Ed Kohler Says

I wonder how many IE6 users have simply grown accustomed to PNG issues? Similarly, I wonder how many 800×600 monitor setting users have grown accustom to horizontal scrolling?

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