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Implementating Transparent PNGs in IE7

Posted by timothy on from the hammers-and-tongs dept.

Brandon writes "Over at the official IE Blog, Sam Fortiner has posted some very detailed information regarding Alpha PNG Rendering in IE7. From the article: 'As the dev who implemented the support, I can state that it was neither a bug-fix nor did it require a re-write of the display engine. Instead, it ended up being somewhere in-between the two and required what I would call "feature work." Implementing transparency support for PNG images required a significant amount of modification to the image decoding and display pipeline in IE along with a significant amount of new functionality added to the PNG decoder.'"

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  1. Implementating? by Atrax · · Score: 3, Funny

    put your spellchecker on danger money, baby.

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    1. Re:Implementating? by abulafia · · Score: 2, Funny

      Naw, they're just misoverestimavating the submittzors.

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    2. Re:Implementating? by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 2, Funny

      What's the problem? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

      </obsimpsons>

      -Stephen

    3. Re:Implementating? by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I think it's time I spent my precious picoseconds looking at some other website."

      If typos are such a sore spot with you, why come down into the forum area of Slashdot?

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  2. Requires IE5, IE6 by julie-h · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a question. When there is written

    "Requires IE5, IE6, or better"

    on a website. Does that mean Firefox?

    1. Re:Requires IE5, IE6 by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Funny

      to me "Best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer" say "Wanted , new web designer/Developer"

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    2. Re:Requires IE5, IE6 by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Funny

      IE is a complete pain to code to , I have it installed on my Mac just for testing compatability if i ever feel like doing any web stuff.
      I end up making a php checker page sometimes to just redirect people to a striped down non complient page if they are using MSIE.
      Well thats ok for me , most of my stuff is for Unix type OS or mac so there isn't really much alternative , though i have got complaints from people whop use IE saying my site is broken , the reply is awlawys (if they are using MSIE) "No your browser is", Simple as that... though most people dont really have an option like that.
      The only awnser has been to code in some javascript check to alter parts of the page based on the browser . ;) When i was working as a web dev , there were days when i felt like taking a flight to the MS offices and going "Standards complient " on the IE team.

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  3. Fixes by Adelbert · · Score: 3, Funny

    So IE7 will show transparent PNGs, Firefox 2.0 will render /. properly. What will I be able to complain about then?

  4. [OT] I just want to know why... by leonbrooks · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when Conan32 spelt "hypocrisy" correctly, and both eraserewind and NanoGator had it right there on their screens to reply to, they both spelt it wrong?

    <thwack!>

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