bloody IE!
im in my CSS mood, and got loads of free icons in png format. bloody loving it. except one browser doesn’t support it. png is a replacement to the copyrighted gif format. it has other benefits such as alpha transparencies, so you can change the colour scheme of your site and the transparent bits of the png will change too gracefully. 
but…well let’s quote from an article in A List Apart : For People Who Make Websites.
So What About Browser Support?
By now, of course, we’d all be up to our ears in PNGs if browsers supported them reliably. But seven years after the format’s inception, you still can’t slap a PNG onto a web page like you can a GIF or JPG. It’s disgraceful, but not as bad as it sounds.
It turns out that most of the latest versions of the major browsers fully support alpha transparency with PNG – namely, Netscape 6, Opera 6, and recently-released Mozilla 1, all on Windows; and, for the Mac, Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 6, Opera 5, Mozilla 1, OmniWeb 3.1, and ICab 1.9. Incredibly, PNG even works on Opera 6 for Linux, on WebTV, and on Sega Dreamcast.
Now, what’s missing from that list?
IE5.5+/Win, bless its heart, will, in fact, display a PNG, but it doesn’t natively support alpha transparency. In IE5.5+/Win, the transparent area of your PNG will display at 100% opacity – that is, it won’t be transparent at all.
Bugger.
Bloody JavaScript is needed to make it show on IE…:P
Also slagging off IE…some guy on our forum posted a little thing about IE7. As i was expecting it’s a Firefox rip off. it even uses the same shortcut keys as firefox! grr
anyway that’s my slagging off IE finished.
- Geeky | Time: 11:18 am (UTC+8)
Yeah, really irritating how PNGs still don’t work properly.
Stupid IE.
Comment by Mason — January 22, 2006 @ 2:30 pm
yeah pisses me off everyday, really can’t take much more of this, DAMN IE, DAMN IT TO HELL
Comment by turonm — January 22, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
Then use a better browser.
Comment by Mason — January 22, 2006 @ 6:22 pm
or was that sarcasm, turon?
whatch you love ie7 and tell us all about the new features…”old neeeeeeeews to us, mate”
Comment by sy — January 22, 2006 @ 10:09 pm
What ‘new features’ is it supposed to have?
“It supports websites now.”
Comment by Mason — January 22, 2006 @ 11:41 pm
it’ll have tab-browsing, rss reader, pop up blocker, it’ll render CSS properly too. and some more security features.
Comment by sy — January 23, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
STOLEN STOLEN.
Comment by Mason — January 24, 2006 @ 9:35 am
DON’T CAAARE
Comment by turonm — January 24, 2006 @ 3:35 pm