JeevesBond — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:19:58 +0000

As CptAwesome showed, there are hacks around the problem. ie5.5 and upwards can use Javascript to work transparency in. You could use that technique or the one described on this forum: http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=32884&page=2&pp=15

waffles wrote: In another 5 years, when something better comes along, everyone who uses IE will have the ability to see the transparency on a PNG.

Am inclined to agree with this, I motion for a vote of "no confidence" in IE. Even version 7 is nowhere near Firefox or Opera in terms of features, you certainly wont get that nice warm "Open Source" feeling from using ie either.

CptAwesome — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:46:24 +0000

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

waffles — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:44:46 +0000

In another 5 years, when something better comes along, everyone who uses IE will have the ability to see the transparency on a PNG.

DaveyBoy — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:35:25 +0000

Yeah IE7 finally manages to deal with it I think, but for now it's not recommended you do it, which is a huge shame as it's potential is great.

Busy — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:34:35 +0000

IE doesn't do .png transparencies to well (if at all), so .gif would be your safest bet.

waffles — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:00:09 +0000

When I was looking at my site with IE6 it didn't pick up the transparency on the PNG. Which sucks because that was a lot sharper than the GIF.