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There is actually a work around for IE's lack of transparency support in PNGs. It depends on some clever tricks with CSS and the fact that IE 6's CSS is broken. The only catch is that it is limited to images defined in divs.

/* IE versions prior to 7.0 do not support transparency, so the following is a workaround
      taken from: http://www.daltonlp.com/daltonlp.cgi?item_type=1&i tem_id=217
  */

#site_header_name {
        height: 100px;
        width: 702px; /* Mozilla ignores crazy MS image filters, so it will skip the following */
        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImag eLoader(enabled=true, sizingMethod=scale src='../images/name.png');
} /* IE ignores styles with [attributes], so it will skip the following. */ .site_header_name[class] {
    background-image:url(../images/name.png);
}

Not being in Taiwan, this makes me wonder how bad the situation would have to be for some of the other governments to follow a path of violating patent and copyright laws for the benefit of the general population. Are there precedents, procedures for doing so?"

See http://www.daltonlp.com/daltonlp.cgi?item_type=1&i tem_id=217 for how to get pngs to display transparency on IE 5.5 and IE 6. This is now a well-known technique that works pretty well universally. Combine with CSS or javascript and you should be able to use pngs entirely.

Go to This site, which has a very good explaination plus comments as well... highly recommended.