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June 06, 2005
PNG transparency finally in IE7 w/o having to use hacks
Wow, I found this to be a good read on PNG transparency in the upcoming version of Internet Explorer 7. A developer (Sam Fortiner) from the Internet Explorer team now has a blog and explains all.
Wonder what this means for the community when IE7 is released to the masses. hmmm. ;)
Check it out:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx
Posted by amusselman at June 6, 2005 07:58 AM
Comments
Does anyone know when IE 7 will be released for general use (just so I can begin to mentally prepare myself for this milestone)?
Posted by: Matt at June 7, 2005 11:04 AM
Yay! No more CSS hacks ... good bye filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader :p hehe
Posted by: Andrew Spaulding at June 8, 2005 06:16 PM
Hmm... we should make sure various types of Fireworks native file formats work well during beta... most applications ignore these extra authoring extensions in the PNG file, but in the past some have choked on such private chunks:
http://libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Encoders.html#E.Use-of-private-chunks
This doesn't come up in general WWW use, because of filesize concerns, but it's useful to have an editable graphic for local networks. D'you know where Microsoft is in its schedule now, Alan...?
tx, jd/mm
Posted by: John Dowdell at June 8, 2005 07:39 PM